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The Knicks Are Going To The Conference Finals · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: Are you ready for the shortest recap you'll ever get
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  Speaker 1: on this channel? The Knicks are advancing to the Conference
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  Speaker 1: finals for the first time in forever. One nineteen to
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  Speaker 1: eighty one is a final score. Why did I wait
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  Speaker 1: until the end of this game the film instead of
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  Speaker 1: filming in the middle of the third quarter.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy that I did wait because I got to
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  Speaker 1: hear the fans chat for PJ Tucker and PJ Tucker
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  Speaker 1: checking to a basketball game in twenty twenty five. I
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  Speaker 1: got to see a Tyler Kolek three that was fun,
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  Speaker 1: and I got to hear the fans sing no, no, no, no, hey, hey, goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: Worth worth waiting for, even though there was a time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm just fingers cross praying that nothing bad happens
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  Speaker 1: as Tim they would rides his guys in a game
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  Speaker 1: there are by thirty five until four minutes left. I
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  Speaker 1: just had too many flashbacks to what happened with one
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  Speaker 1: minute and ten seconds left here in Chicago about a
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  Speaker 1: decade and a half ago. But whatever, nothing, no harm done.
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  Speaker 1: Top of ite, and the Knicks are going to the
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  Speaker 1: Conference Finals. I cannot express how exciting this really is
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  Speaker 1: because the entirety of my lifetime, other than a few
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  Speaker 1: years when Mellow was in New York. This, this team,
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  Speaker 1: this organization had been a laugh as stock. I felt
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  Speaker 1: like earlier in my consecration days, when it comes around
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks, we were talking more about what the hell
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  Speaker 1: James Dolan was doing as the owner versus the product
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  Speaker 1: that was on the court. We talk about bad contract sign,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about this, We're talking about that. And now,
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  Speaker 1: right now in twenty twenty five, that Nicks are back
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  Speaker 1: and they're in the conference finals versus a old school
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  Speaker 1: rival that I cannot wait for.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I said, it's gonna be the Storge Recacre's not a
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  Speaker 1: lot to talk about with his actual game. The only
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  Speaker 1: thing I can say is that I appreciate that the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks understood time and place, but they just showed you
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  Speaker 1: in Game of A five that they can beat you
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  Speaker 1: right even with ou Jason Tatum. And the last thing
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  Speaker 1: you want to do is go back to the TV
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  Speaker 1: Garden for a game seven.
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  Speaker 2: So let's step on their next right now, Buster Rams
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  Speaker 2: is in the crowd. We can't disappoint Bust, you know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So they came out put the foot on the neck amazingly,
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  Speaker 1: and they were up by forty plus without even having
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  Speaker 1: Jaylen Brunson have to be Superman, And I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was amazing. Conthny Towns comes out aggressive, and he comes
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  Speaker 1: out show bow, and he comes out talking to the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing all of the great stuff that makes him
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  Speaker 1: Conthony Towns, and I loved and loved and loved that,
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, man, this is an insane run. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: take a step back. Let's say I'm coming from the future.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to you when you were in January, right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming from the future, and I'm telling you that
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  Speaker 1: the Conference finals this year it's Pacers versus Nicks.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel You think I'm lying? You think
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling true?
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  Speaker 1: Because I think it's kind of wild to really think about.
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  Speaker 1: In my mind, if I could go back to the
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  Speaker 1: content that I was creating, we was doing Contenders versus
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  Speaker 1: the Pretenders, and so on and so forth, none of
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  Speaker 1: us would have predicted that this was going to be
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  Speaker 1: the Conference finals. And the beginning of January. The Pacers
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  Speaker 1: were a good team. They weren't a great team. They
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  Speaker 1: started off the season at ten and fifteen, and then
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  Speaker 1: the next didn't beat nobody into the playoffs started, So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is kind of insane, right. It could be a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of different things. I think that the Pacers, of course,
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  Speaker 1: have raised their play since January first. I think the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks have raised their place since the beginning of the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: But it also is showcasing.
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  Speaker 1: What is it a war of attrition right where being
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  Speaker 1: prepared and somewhat getting lucky. And I don't mean that
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  Speaker 1: in a negative connotation, but not having or having your
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  Speaker 1: guys be ready and healthy goes a very, very long way.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how we get to the point where we
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  Speaker 1: got these two exciting teams led by great star power
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  Speaker 1: guards and good coaching times lib But I'm giving you
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  Speaker 1: that right now. At the end of the last series,
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  Speaker 1: I won't too sure, but damn it, you want me
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  Speaker 1: back good coaching, and I haven't. I thought about this
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  Speaker 1: series because I wanted to make sure that the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: won THEIRS before I went in to watch the film,
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know exactly where my head is at
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to making predictions. I think I'll you
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  Speaker 1: know this game, and it's so early. I might watch
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  Speaker 1: some film tonight after I get this video. Well, but
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks doing what they do is amazing. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: while this game is happening, and I recognize that the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks are up by Wait what was the highest they
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  Speaker 1: were up by? When they were up by forty one
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  Speaker 1: in the end of the third quarter or one minute
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  Speaker 1: left in the third quarter, I'm like, who's the real
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  Speaker 1: IVP of.
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  Speaker 2: This right now? Is it Brunton? Is it Thibodeau, is
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  Speaker 2: it this? Is it that?
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  Speaker 1: And I came down to saying that obviously a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people deserve credit, but Leon Rose has done wonders.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at it. I'm like, okay, this fire man,
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  Speaker 2: this on the court right now.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brunton was signed from the Dallas Mavericks for cheap
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  Speaker 1: and Jaylen Brunton deserves a cold MVP, I guess for
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  Speaker 1: taking that pay cut to make this team able to
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  Speaker 1: not just compete this year, but for the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of years. But he trade, he signs Jaylen Brunton on
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  Speaker 1: a team friendly deal. Jaylen Brunton blossoms to one of
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  Speaker 1: the best players in basketball. I don't know who the
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  Speaker 1: hell expected that to happen. I know I didn't. And
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  Speaker 1: then every other player that's on the court with him
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  Speaker 1: right now are players that Leon Rose traded for. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't inherit this ross. He inherited a different ross. He said,
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  Speaker 1: this guy, I right, we like gelaus Man and we
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  Speaker 1: like r J. Beard and man you quickly, but we
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  Speaker 1: feel like we can make them better. And the way
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  Speaker 1: they made it better is trading five first round pick
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  Speaker 1: from mikeel Bridges. And trust me, I remember which I
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  Speaker 1: was saying about the Michel Bridges trade.
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  Speaker 2: Just last month.
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  Speaker 1: You remember that game when the Knicks blew the lead
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  Speaker 1: against the Celtics, but right before the season ended, at
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  Speaker 1: like five first round picks for this guy. And in
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  Speaker 1: this series, mckil bridges closed out two different games on
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  Speaker 1: defensive stops, whether it be the steal slash block on
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  Speaker 1: Tatum and then just ripping the ball out of Jaylen
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  Speaker 1: Brunt's hands in a game of before he scored ten
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  Speaker 1: points in the fourth quarter. He hasn't worth every single
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  Speaker 1: one of those picks. So traded for that guy, checked
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  Speaker 1: trade for Gianoby. Some of the staples within the organization,
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  Speaker 1: Man r J. Barrett was drafted there and he had
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  Speaker 1: blossomed to the point where people enjoyed watching him play.
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  Speaker 2: Man you quickly six Man of the Year candidate.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna trade that and some more stuff to bring
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  Speaker 1: o Gionanoby and Ojian Nanoby has his woes with injuries
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  Speaker 1: and stuff, but damman, we know who he is as
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  Speaker 1: a player, and as long as we could keep him healthy.
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  Speaker 2: For a postseason run, he will be able to perform.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought some of the games throughout this series
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  Speaker 1: he got lost, but tonight was not one of those nights.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Hart, I don't even remember the Josh Art trait.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even remember who the hell they traded away
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  Speaker 1: to get Josh Sharpen. But Josh Hart wasn't as valuable
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  Speaker 1: then that he is right now. Triple double for Josh
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  Speaker 1: Shart again. By the way, Yeah, let me see off
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  Speaker 1: the Let's see if I can find Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: it's a big four time trade. Oh my Goshema kay
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  Speaker 1: look is in this trade. Kobe Jones is in this trade. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Matie Stibles in this trade. God Lee anyway, big ass trade,
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  Speaker 1: four team trade, trade for Josh har Boom. And then
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  Speaker 1: the last piece is pulling off the card. Think the
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  Speaker 1: Town's trade right before training and that's tray. Looks great
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  Speaker 1: right now for both teams. They're both for conference finals,
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  Speaker 1: and there might be a world where Julius rand would
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  Speaker 1: get his revenge if you Wiel versus the Knicks, or
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  Speaker 1: cont Towns get his revenge versus the Minnesota Templewools. So
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  Speaker 1: that's up in the air right now. Both teams are
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  Speaker 1: in the conference finals. So he's just done Wonders and
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to do. There's a lot of pressure to
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  Speaker 1: be good in New York Man. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: pressure to be good in New York and I thought
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  Speaker 1: he played the patient game until he saw the opening.
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  Speaker 1: And that's when you get this offseason where you trade
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  Speaker 1: all the draft capital so on, and you know, you
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  Speaker 1: can look back on it, or in some of the
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  Speaker 1: real time articles I remember reading, it was like, was
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  Speaker 1: he a bit too eager because that's the same amount
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  Speaker 1: of draft picks.
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  Speaker 2: That Kevin fucking the Rent got. Mikel Bridge is gonna
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  Speaker 2: raise a ceiling that much? The answer is so far.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the first conference finals appearance in twenty plus years,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they're doing right now. Cameron Payne played again today,
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  Speaker 1: so check that for Camen Payn. He gets another postseason win.
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  Speaker 1: He's got one hundred of oers in his young career.
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  Speaker 1: I think it just turned thirty, so maybe not that
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  Speaker 1: young of a career. But yeah, man, I'm proud of
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks, Like I truly am proud the Knicks is
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  Speaker 1: I do believe that the NBA is better when the
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  Speaker 1: bigger markets are good. Now that's not a shot that
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  Speaker 1: the smaller markets do, not, get me wrong, but this
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  Speaker 1: is good. Like, Knicks fans are phenomenal. And I started
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  Speaker 1: here record right after the video the game ended, so
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine what's going on the streets in New York.
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  Speaker 1: And I bet if I loaded up Twitter right now,
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  Speaker 1: it'll have a bunch of people climbing up street poles
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But that's just how ridiculous fandom
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  Speaker 1: really is for them. So I cannot wait to see
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  Speaker 1: what happens in the next series. They got a few
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  Speaker 1: days in between these games, right, I think the first
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  Speaker 1: game will started till Monday or something alone his line,
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  Speaker 1: so like both teams can be well rested and take
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  Speaker 1: a few days to kind of figure out exactly how
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  Speaker 1: to get to guard each other and all. But like
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of nuts. The Knicks could be in the finals.
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  Speaker 2: That's nuts. Let's flip it onto the Celtis for a
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  Speaker 2: few minutes. It's so.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting how fast a window can close, And honestly, it
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  Speaker 1: may have. This window has been open for quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: They made the NBA Finals a few years back to
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  Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors, got to the conference finals a
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  Speaker 1: gazillion times with this car and now it's closed with
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  Speaker 1: this current core, at least because we already knew that
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  Speaker 1: whether they lost in the first round or they made
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  Speaker 1: it to the NBA Finals and won that one, that
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  Speaker 1: they were going through some financial hardships that they would
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  Speaker 1: have to make some trades. Regardless, they were not going
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  Speaker 1: to bring back all that both of the J's Derek Whye,
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  Speaker 1: Drew Holliday and port zingis Al Horford. There was a
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  Speaker 1: zero percent chance all of those dudes were on the
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  Speaker 1: team next season. And now with Jason Tatum going down
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  Speaker 1: with his injury get will soon Tatum, it makes it
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  Speaker 1: more realistic that they make some money made money changes
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  Speaker 1: in order to get below the second apron with their
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  Speaker 1: new ownership. And again, because this game was so much
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  Speaker 1: of a blowout, I'm trying to figure out Okay, if
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  Speaker 1: you are Celtics ownership or you are Celtics management and
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out who's worth keeping and who's
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  Speaker 1: worth trading the way, I feel pretty good about the
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  Speaker 1: Jays being here, even though.
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  Speaker 2: Cooper Flagg did interview.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Flagg did interview with the Celtics, Like, what the
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  Speaker 1: hell did they interviewing him for other than him being
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  Speaker 1: a Northeasterner.
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  Speaker 2: Easterner is that a word. He's from Maine, so it's
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  Speaker 2: like close.
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  Speaker 1: So I bet he is a bosson Celtics fan if
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  Speaker 1: I had the guests, so they interviewed him, What does
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  Speaker 1: that mean? Probably most likely nothing, But I'm saying that
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  Speaker 1: I feel good about the Jay's being there, even if
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  Speaker 1: Jason Tatum is not going to play next season, so
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  Speaker 1: on and so forth. Then you get to Dirk White,
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  Speaker 1: who's like third on my list, is like must keep
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  Speaker 1: around because he just does everything. Again that game five,
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  Speaker 1: one of the reasons they win is because he turned
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  Speaker 1: into Steph Curry and he's able to do that occasionally.
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  Speaker 1: But then we get to the others like Drew Hollidays
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  Speaker 1: guaranteed two extra years after this season, plus a team
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  Speaker 1: option on it last year. He's gonna be thirty seven
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  Speaker 1: years old, making a lot of money, and though he
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  Speaker 1: was stinky today, I'm sure if you made him available,
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  Speaker 1: there will be a lot of teams still interested, at.
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  Speaker 2: Least in who he is as a player.
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  Speaker 1: Porzingis was basically unplayable all playoffs long, and it has
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  Speaker 1: a lot to do with the illness whatever the hell
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  Speaker 1: he's dealing with.
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  Speaker 2: So I hope he gets well soon.
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  Speaker 1: But based on this showing, it's not gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: lot of teams like, hell yeah, sign us up for
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  Speaker 1: this one year of Horzingis. That's like a salary dumb
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  Speaker 1: move Al Horford at gazillion years old. I would hope
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  Speaker 1: that he's still I can't even imagine him going to
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  Speaker 1: a different team, even though he played a lot of
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  Speaker 1: his career the different teams, So I expect them to
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  Speaker 1: be really, really active, really really active. And yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: the window with this current cores closed that fast. We're
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  Speaker 1: in the year, we're in the years of the parody era.
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  Speaker 1: We're about the crown our seventh consecutive new champion.
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  Speaker 2: That's nuts.
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  Speaker 1: We've never had a streak like this, ever had a
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  Speaker 1: streak like this in NBA history, And I like this
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  Speaker 1: era a lot more than some of the other eras,
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  Speaker 1: Like when we watched an entire season knowing, damn well,
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  Speaker 1: the Warriors were unbeatable, or we watched the entirety of
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  Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference and we tried to give hope to
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  Speaker 1: a team like the Chicago Bulls doing damn well, the
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  Speaker 1: Miami Heat were still gonna make it to the finals
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  Speaker 1: every single season.
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  Speaker 2: Nowadays, you just don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You could come in and say, hey, the Celtics won
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  Speaker 1: the championship and they are the heavy favorite to win
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  Speaker 1: it all again, and then they lose in the second round.
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  Speaker 1: And I did a segment on my podcast a few
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  Speaker 1: months ago about this, how much we respect the reigning
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  Speaker 1: champions going to the next season, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times they let us down. And I just don't know
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  Speaker 1: what would have happened if Tatum would have stayed healthy.
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  Speaker 1: But when Tatum went down, they were down, But what
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  Speaker 1: nine points or so when he went down with his
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  Speaker 1: injury in that game, and then they still would have
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  Speaker 1: only needed one more. So I don't know. Man, the
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  Speaker 1: parody error is real. Some people are trying to say
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  Speaker 1: that this has to do with the second apron right,
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  Speaker 1: one of the questions I got asked, is during the
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  Speaker 1: second Apron experimentation, do we think that there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a team to be able to repeat? And I
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  Speaker 1: want to say yes, because the Second Aprin didn't prevent
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  Speaker 1: the Celtics from being this version of themselves.
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  Speaker 2: They just didn't shoot shots well this series or this season,
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  Speaker 2: if you will.
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  Speaker 1: Last year they were the highest value three point shooting team,
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  Speaker 1: is one of the best percentage wise three point shooting teams.
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  Speaker 1: This year that was not the case, even in this
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  Speaker 1: clothes I gating this shot twenty nine percent.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't change up their philosophies.
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  Speaker 1: They just prayed that once the playoffs came around, the
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  Speaker 1: jump shots will start falling like they did last year.
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  Speaker 1: And it didn't happen that way. I said it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a short recap. It wasn't. But shout out to
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks, baby. So now we get a Game seven
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, a two thirty Sunday tip. I guess that's
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  Speaker 1: cool and Aary Gordon might be out for that one.
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  Speaker 2: So again the war.
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  Speaker 1: Am I using this right war of attrition definition? Let
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  Speaker 1: me make sure I'm using this right war of attrition?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? This is AI never mind. I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm never gonna use it again. AI is telling me
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  Speaker 1: that I'm right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, cool, I'm right.