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Will Wemby and Spurs Force a Game 7 and Golden Knights Return to the Stanley Cup Finals · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to The Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me. Make sure you hit
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  Speaker 1: subscribe and follow us on social at the Daily Play
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  Speaker 1: Joy Taylor. So the Knicks are chilling right now. Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Bunsen and company close off the Cabs and four on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: the second straight suite for the Knicks, and these playoffs
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  Speaker 1: have been on a generational run, and now they just
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  Speaker 1: wait and see who they will be playing against, the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs or the Thunder, and who would present the best
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  Speaker 1: chance for the next end their fifty three year NBA
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  Speaker 1: title drought. So the Knicks haven't been the Thunder in
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  Speaker 1: three seasons. This iteration of New York has lost four
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  Speaker 1: games against Oka See by an average of twelve point
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  Speaker 1: three points. They fare slightly better against the Spurs. But
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  Speaker 1: obviously I am very weary of paying too much attention
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  Speaker 1: to what happens during the regular season. Guys are at
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  Speaker 1: different positions, Some teams are missing players due to injury,
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  Speaker 1: they're more locked in, made adjustments, all those type of things.
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  Speaker 1: But it is just the data that we have to
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  Speaker 1: go off of right now. I think Knicks fans should
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  Speaker 1: enjoy these good times because you don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: finals are going to bring, but it has to feel
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  Speaker 1: good for Knicks fans and for basketball fans in general.
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  Speaker 1: It's great when the Knicks are exciting and interesting. In
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  Speaker 1: this group, it has been really fun to watch eleven
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  Speaker 1: straight wins and now they can sit in wait to
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  Speaker 1: see who comes out of the West. So let's take
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  Speaker 1: a look at the Western Conference. The Thunder have a
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  Speaker 1: three to two lead, but the Spurs have already proven
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  Speaker 1: they are are worthy opponents and will not be easy
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  Speaker 1: to knock out of these playoffs. Game six tips off
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  Speaker 1: tonight in San Antonio. You definitely want to see a
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  Speaker 1: better performance out of Wemby than you saw in Game five.
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  Speaker 1: They sort of felt like they had brought him back
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  Speaker 1: down to earth. They seem to have any answer for
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  Speaker 1: him now. Well, obviously we know from Game one Wemby
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  Speaker 1: can go off at any time, but they are still
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  Speaker 1: a young team and getting experienced in the postseason. This
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  Speaker 1: is the furthest that he's played in the postseason, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: So what's that w and terry look like on his body?
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  Speaker 1: As they are playing in an incredibly physical series. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of adjustments they
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  Speaker 1: make and being that this will knock them out of
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. I expect to see a lot of energy
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of fight out of the Spurs against
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  Speaker 1: the Thunder in Game six, and hopefully for all of us,
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  Speaker 1: push it to a Game seven. So let's finish today
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  Speaker 1: with some hockey talk. The Vegas Golden Knights are only
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  Speaker 1: in their ninth year of existence and have just made
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  Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup Finals for the third time. They beat
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  Speaker 1: the Colorado Avalanche too one on Tuesday night in Vegas
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  Speaker 1: to complete a four game sweep of the Western Conference finals.
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  Speaker 1: Their coach has only been with the team two months,
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  Speaker 1: John Tortorella said, after spending a couple of weeks with
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  Speaker 1: the team, you can tell it's a really good group.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thrilled for the opportunity, thrilled to be along for
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  Speaker 1: the ride with them. I consider this the first three
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  Speaker 1: rounds of the playoffs the last round that's when you
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  Speaker 1: play for the Stanley Cup. We have an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: play for the Stanley Cup now, and I am proud
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  Speaker 1: of these guys. So I love what the Golden Knights
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  Speaker 1: have done. When they first came to Vegas, there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of questions about what it was going to
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  Speaker 1: look like for a professional sports organization in Vegas, and
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  Speaker 1: they've really changed the expectations for what a new franchise
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  Speaker 1: in sports leagues can do. If you look at the
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  Speaker 1: Golden State Valkyries, they made the playoffs and earn the
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  Speaker 1: highest valuation of ANYWNBA team all in their debut season,
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  Speaker 1: and the Golden Knights blaze that trail. They made it
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  Speaker 1: to the Stanley Cup finals in their first season in
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, they won the Stanley Cup in season six
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, and they've made it back to the
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  Speaker 1: finals again this season. So they've really constructed a great structure.
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  Speaker 1: They've made adjustments throughout the season. They made a big
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  Speaker 1: move to fire Bruce Cassidy who won them the Stanley
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  Speaker 1: Cup in twenty twenty three, and like I said, replace
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  Speaker 1: them with Tortorella just a few months ago. And now
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  Speaker 1: they're back in the Stanley Cup finals. So now that
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  Speaker 1: the Conference finals will are over, the Golden Knights will
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  Speaker 1: wait for the winner of the Eastern Conference Finals between
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  Speaker 1: the Carolina Hurricanes and the Montreal Canadians. The Hurricanes are
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  Speaker 1: up to one after winning games two and three in overtime,
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  Speaker 1: so very interesting story to me. I love that they
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  Speaker 1: have been able to be so successful being a new franchise.
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  Speaker 1: Generally when you have an expansion franchise or new franchise,
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  Speaker 1: and in the city where there was a lot of
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  Speaker 1: questions about how it was going to be maintained, what
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  Speaker 1: was the fan base going to be like, how loyal
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  Speaker 1: are they going to be? Is it going to be
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  Speaker 1: too transient? They've done an amazing job, so I love
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  Speaker 1: seeing this for Vegas and for the Golden Knights, and
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  Speaker 1: we will see who ends up matching up with them
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  Speaker 1: in the Stanley Cup Finals. That's it for me. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much for joining me on the Daily Play with
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  Speaker 1: Joy Taylor. Make sure that you hit subscribe and follow
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