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Knicks Champions: My June 13 That Changed Everything · D-constructing Topics

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Yo what's going on everybody and what's going on folks and i apologize for kind
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of screaming a little bit out there but you know what welcome to the deconstructed
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topic podcast where we grab a topic and we deconstructed
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the d-wave and i'm your legendary host and my name is david and welcome to the legendary
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deconstructed topic podcast,
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let's go we'll definitely make
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it happen for those people out there you already know i got a knicks hat,
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we're talking new york knicks we're talking i'm still uh reeling from this championship
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from whatever happened it's not whatever happened we are the new york knicks
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and we are the nba 2026 nba,
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champions let's.
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Go anyways i'm a little bit uh what can i say to you i'm still reeling i'm still
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like processes i'm i'm still like wow i can't believe,
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and i believe that my new york knicks at one point in my lifetime and i just want to even,
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touch bases on a couple of things because it was a beautiful day on saturday,
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and it started beautiful and i'm just gonna tell you a couple of things off the bat,
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shout out to all these knicks fans out there that did the journey did the track
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so more good that you know they they mortgage their house they quit their jobs
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what i said that new york knicks knowing new york city and some of these folks
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here in New York City, whether you're born in New York City or not,
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or in New York or not, hey, listen, come on, J-Lo.
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Come on, J-Lo, get that together. As long as you live here, hey,
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you're a New Yorker, it don't matter where you come from.
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I think somebody kind of mentioned, based on the logic that if you're not living
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in New York or you was not born here or New York City, whatever it is that she
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said in that interview, that means that you're not Puerto Rican, J-Lo.
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But anyways, I digress. That's a whole different topic, but shout out to everybody.
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You know what I mean? All those things found that put in the work.
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Y'all already know one of some of the notorious famous known Knicks fan,
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the Spike Lees and the Fat Joes and the Timmy, whatever the Timmy the Timmy can.
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Y'all already know. The dude that goes out with one of those,
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you know, Jenner Kardashian people. Y'all already know.
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But so much to talk about. So much to talk about for sure, for sure.
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Welcome to my legendary podcast, the Deca Shrugged and Topic Podcast.
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I had a trip looking at these videos and even in, I could not say,
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which I did not talk, though I did kind of talk about, I don't know.
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I'm still kind of like, hey, let's go.
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NBA champions, we are here.
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I do want to tell a story, a couple of stories here.
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And it's funny because, where was it? A very endearing sister in arms of mine
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who the other day said, you know what, I'm jumping on the next bandwagon.
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I said to myself, and I've seen a lot of people, There's no such thing as jumping
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to the Knicks bandwagon.
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People know that when there's something special, you know you have to ride the
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wave, ride the magic carpet. Because you know what?
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This Knicks run inspires so many people, especially in New York City and throughout
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the New York State and the tri-state with Jersey.
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You already know Connecticut. We got a lot of bunch of Knicks fans going through
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and that crazy. You know, Knicks fans are savages.
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Savages was not a big fan of the destruction. But, hey, listen,
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we got savaging them for those people out there.
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And there's a different sister in arms of mine who said, you know what?
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You know, I'm jumping the bandwagon and so on. And she laughs and all that.
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But then I said, you know what's crazy? Because he's always have had a knickknack
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of saying, que tienen que ser real los New York Knicks.
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They need to shut this team out.
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They need to close them. And that was like years ago.
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And I'm like, you know what? I'm going to forgive you one day when the New York
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Knicks becomes champion.
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And she said, you know, you're a Yankee fan. So I get it. She's,
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you know, one of those sport Yankee fans, but not necessarily a New York Knicks
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fan like I am. And I'll talk about that. 1990.
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Let's go. And the fact that she apologized to me, you know, hey,
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listen, you know, it's the bandwagon, whatever.
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Okay, I'm sorry. They don't need to shut down. And I said, look,
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listen, no such thing as a bandwagon.
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The fact that this person in the last three years, I've gone to Master Garden,
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a couple of times doing the watch party type of thing.
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Have gone out there and crowd-served with the crazy, savage New York Knicks
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fan. And I said to myself, hey, sister, don't break a leg out there,
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you know? We're not a spring chicken.
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But the fact that her energy in the last three years, she has and is officially
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a goddamn New York Knicks fan. Let's get in and shout out to that sister.
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Because for years, she just kept on saying the Knicks is gone, you know, shut it down.
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But yet you're over here doing the 34th Street, doing the, you know,
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the shopping and all that. until once that she started doing the shopping around
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34th Street, she started seeing how the Knicks fan and our success in the last three years.
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And she see that the Knicks fans are special and a little bit of savagery in
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that. But let's make it happen.
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Let's start with Saturday. And shout out to MD Hussein, who's the Bangladesh
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viral YouTube person who says.
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My man is Muslim, my beggar is still Jewish, the Pope is on our side,
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and the Knicks at five, And the fact that when you bring these folks from Bangladesh,
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there's a lot of Bangladesh that I know.
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I live in a community with a lot of Bangladesh. And then the fact that you have different people.
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I myself, Puerto Rican, will talk about that. You got some of the white folks.
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Hey, the black community, the Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican,
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Salvadorian, Central America, South America, globally.
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Look, New York City's a melting pot. Why can't you not find in New York City? regardless.
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Because Redi Hassan is kind of right.
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Hey, listen, in my understanding, I believe that he is Muslim.
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And if you look at current mayor, New York City mayor, Andani,
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he's Muslim. But the fact that, hey, listen, they're going to enjoy their little,
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you know, bagel on and on, little bagel, Jewish bagel. I'm just saying.
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But the fact that on Saturday, when I woke up, I woke up early and I actually
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headed to the 116th Street Puerto Rican Food Festival, shout out.
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Ooh, to all the vendors, the good people that was out there.
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That's how I started my day. I started my day Saturday morning.
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More Puerto Rican than anything. As a matter of fact, my New York City man is Puerto Rican.
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Big was Puerto Rican. The Pope is Puerto Rican. And you know what?
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The whole New York Knicks who won the championship this year,
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they're all Puerto Rican. Hey, I forgot. I'll see you. But the fact is this.
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It's one of those things where that's what New York City is.
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And that's what this New York Knicks team was bringing to the,
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you know, with this magic run or determined run or this mission to finally bring
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a championship after 53 years.
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And I headed, you know, to 160th Street, El Bajro, you already know.
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I actually went to 109th. And shout out to this local spot or at least kind
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of known spot, you know, Cocotazo. They had their little thing going on,
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Black Party. Black Party. Did I say Black Party?
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Yeah. Don't want to say Black Party. Hey, come on, man. But Black Party. We had a good time.
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And the fact that I went there and, you know, feeling the good vibe of,
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you know, the Puerto Rican food, the food, the Pelil. Or I say lechon,
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the morcilla, all that, the ensalada de papa, ensalada de codito.
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You already know we are over here making moves. And this is about this energy
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that's already setting the tone. The fact that we already doing the Puerto Rican
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weekend because Sunday was the Puerto Rican parade.
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But you know what? The 116th Street Food Festival is where it's at because you
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see a lot of people, many people, not just Puerto Ricans, many people who are
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enjoying the good food and the good labor.
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Matter of fact, there was a kiosk that was half Puerto Rican,
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half Colombian, and I tried my best.
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And I'm going to do a podcast on the festival, what I thought about.
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What are things that could be done better.
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Because the food is delicious.
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But there are things that I tend to kind of see. But anyways,
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that's neither here nor there, because we are talking about New York Knicks.
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And we're talking about that day for me, in my point of view,
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in my perspective, that reset the tone.
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The energy was already there. You already know Puerto Ricans energies is crazy energies. Viva.
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Born in Puerto Rico, my energy's off the whole. And many times,
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let's start the morning like that at 3.30 in the morning. Let's go. Let's make it happen.
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But the fact that the energy was there and there was a vibe in there,
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I'm going to say that there was like about 20 to 30% people rocking the New
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York Knicks something. It was just a Knicks affair. We was ready.
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And I myself, you know, enjoying the adult beverage.
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I mean, that Colombian place, I actually picked up a nice little turkey.
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You know, the fact that I went to that festival, not to just network,
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Because I got a podcast. I got to promote my podcast. And I got to meet new
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people. And I network it with a couple of people, especially in Cocotazo over
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there that are 109 between 1st and 2nd Avenue. But the fact is this.
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I was just all over the place having my adult beverage.
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And somewhere down the line, I'm like, I need a little bit of energy.
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And shout out to Weeper Cafe.
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Weeper Coffee Company. Pretty good. Woo. So let's get it. So the energy is already
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evolving to about 20%, 30% people.
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And I want people to understand where you've been at, the reason why I'm doing this podcast.
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Because, you know, I want to, you know, we could always talk about,
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like, you know, the Knicks. We're going to talk about all that. We are talking about it.
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But I want people to kind of go back, especially if you're one of those Knicks
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fans that have been through and through watching the New York Knicks just stink
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up the joint, losing to Michael Jordan in the 90s, Patrick Jorwin's layup,
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the little fight with the Miami Heat.
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1999 NBA Finals that we went there, Patrick got hurt, and we went there against
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the Spurs, the San Antonio Spurs, that same team.
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Not the same players, though. That was a long time.
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But we went there like, hey, we got here. Did I, as a Knicks fan,
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did I feel like we had a shot? Hey, I'm a Knicks fan. Of course.
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But where, is it in the same confidence as this one?
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No, no. Because, you know, with all due respect, and shout out to many of the
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alumni that are actually Marcus Canby, Larry Johnson, Latrell,
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Patrick, Charles Oakley, John Starks,
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Gerard Wilkins, Gerald Wilkins, I'm sorry. I saw Chris Dully, if I'm not mistaken.
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Shout out to many of the New York Knicks alums that been there and could have
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have made it and couldn't, you know, climb over that little hump that we have had.
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We had Carmelo, you know, Carmelo ain't listening.
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Carmelo tried to do his work. But again, when you come to a place like New York,
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the Mecca, it ain't easy to try to get this team to a championship.
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Because this New York Knicks team and these organizations kind of remind me
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of that kind of person who has all the values that you can to make it,
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but you just seem to fall short.
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You make a lot of bad moves, and then you're back in that, you know,
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hitting the rock bottom in a sense. And that's what the Knicks has been in the
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last 20 years. We've been talking, talking, talking. And then something happened.
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And we signed Jalen Bronson. And I want people to kind of hear as they listen to this podcast.
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As I was mentioning, for those Knicks fans out there who have a lifelong,
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suffering Knicks fan, even if you're 20, 15, 35, 40, 45, 50,
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65, 70, 75, whatever your age is, always remember, is it June 13th?
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Look at the calendar, let me confirm. I want to go a little bit too crazy.
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That's correct. June 13th, that's why I'm doing this podcast.
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For this little episode with a little mix of everything. What were you doing on June 13th?
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How did they start it for? I went to the gym. I went to the gym early at 7.30
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in the morning because I know that I got to burn some.
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I got to burn some something. I got to burn some calories. I got to sweat because
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I'm going to have a long day. My mission to go to the Puerto Rican festival
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is not just to go there to rep and to support my local shops out there.
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There's a couple of places.
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Shout out to Freaky Rican. I'll put the links in the description.
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I mean, him and I, you know, were creating comments on his page.
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And, you know, I was like, hey, listen, if you if you start smelling like somebody
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smelling like donku, that might be me. That might be my fragrance of the day somewhere, somehow.
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But the fact is this, that I went on a mission to.
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Get some food, eat some good food, and take some food home. I was about to,
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I had a budget. I'll be honest, I over budget.
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Shout out to the good food out there. But geez, I did the over budget thing that I'm like, come on.
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I do kind of regret they didn't pick up a nice dessert. Arro con dulce when
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flying. You know, the heat was crazy.
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You know, it was hot, you know. And then especially if you got like a lot of
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stuff, I had, you know, my book bag, my content bag, My New York Knicks had a hallelujah.
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I mean, I'm seeing a lot of beautiful people, men and women over here showing their skins.
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I'm like, damn, I'm just saying. I got to do content here.
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I got to promote myself. I can't be carrying stuff like that,
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you know, over here, being a little bit close to being a little bit of Buck Nick, you know.
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The boy needs to promote his stuff. But the fact that on June 1st,
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I mean, June 13th, I apologize.
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That's where I was making moves. And you feel it. You feel it.
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So up in the air tonight, every conversation, everywhere you go,
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everywhere. And that 116th Festival was a Nick's talk. A Nick's talk.
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Everywhere. I think they had a public bathroom somewhere in the park.
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Even there, they was having conversation. Everywhere we went.
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Once again, shout out to Whereby Coffee.
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They had a nice, nice coffee. And listen, and I, you know, I enjoy my coffee black.
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Funny stuff. The fact that us Puerto Ricans, and I always tell that story,
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I was telling the story. I was visiting my family back in Thanksgiving,
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and, you know, we got to have coffee with everything in the morning.
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For some reason, I get it. And my aunt is like, oh, you know,
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quiere café con leche. And I'm like, no, no, no, me lo negro.
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Give it to me black. Again, no funny stuff. She's looking at me like, who does that?
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And I'm like, I mean, got a little bit of Americanized here.
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So shout out to the brother who gave me the iced coffee.
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And he's looking at me, you sure you don't want milk? Or you want some oat milk?
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Or are you trying to find me whatever alternative that he had?
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I'm like, no, I just want it black. Or that sucker like, or iced up.
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Like bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop.
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That gave me some energy again. Because, you know, I was working against the
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elements here. You know, the food, the drinks under me, the fact that I was
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carrying like two bags because I was just racking up on food.
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You know, me and my brother, we got to eat that lechon, that mochillo,
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the pig blood sauces. You already know. For those people who don't eat that
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out there, hey, I respect that. The mochillo be tasting good.
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You know what I mean? Yeah. And that's where the energy was at.
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And then once I'm done there, I'm like, you know what? Let me get out of here,
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do the over thing. Once I get home, shout out to one of my brothers in arms
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that told me, hey, listen, I'm going to pick up some more sillas for you.
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And he dropped me some chili I'm making. That will come in handy.
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You know, because sometimes I love me some good foods, especially the Puerto
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Rican, the whole pork and all that. But, hey, I don't want to do it.
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Sometimes you'd be like, hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me just at least put
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a little bit of chili on or some bread and just pause on the other stuff.
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And then, you know, that's basically the day. And then that's the time.
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It's passing, passing, and it's game time. And once again, I'm going to be straight
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up. As I'm watching the game, I'm already up since like 4 o'clock in the morning.
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I already had a couple of cocktails in me, more than a couple.
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I already ate the good food And it's somewhere Third quarter and we lose it
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And I'm saying to myself Keep up Come on This happened to me already Come on And I fall out,
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And I can hear the game in the background And I can hear the announcers go Yeah
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The New York Knicks And I'm like What is going on? And what am I looking?
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The New York Knicks came back Once again Down by whatever digits it is It ain't
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matter I think we would have been down by Three digits I mean I kid I kid,
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Let's be realistic here With the perseverance of this Knicks team and the way
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they play, and it was on Saturday where we are celebrating something with the
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Puerto Rican food and the culture that extends to all the cultures that are more than welcome,
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to the Puerto Rican parade Sunday.
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Because you know what was interesting? Last year, so I was born in Bayamon,
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Puerto Rico. Shout out to Bayamon.
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And we got a basketball league in Puerto Rico. Bajon Sesto Superior.
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Shout out. And the fact that my home team, which I'm a fan of,
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watching Gallinari, Renata Borkman, and a couple of other places in there,
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the fact that they won the championship last year,
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They kind of told me, okay, maybe this basketball thing for me is going to,
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you know, translate to the New York Knicks in the United States.
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You know, local, local affairs. You already know.
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It's in the universe. The five call is coming. So you kind of feel it.
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You kind of sense it all the way to see boom, boom, boom.
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But the fact that, you know, this energy, which is thriving throughout the city,
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with different people, different cultures, different backgrounds,
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whatever it is, unified.
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And saluting this New York Knicks scene after 53 years.
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This is not just the New York Knicks. This is a different team.
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This is a team where people down the line will say, you know what? They're inspired big.
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And again, I want people to understand where I'm giving you your perspective
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into where I was at in June 13, 2026, how my day started.
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Because by all means, if this goes on where we don't get a championship,
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and I think this team has the great talent, the great heart to make it back-to-back,
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but by all means, if we don't, five, ten years from now, 15 years from now,
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us Knicks fans will remember June 13, and we're going to try to remember 2026.
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Where we was at. What did you do when you started the day?
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What did you eat? What did you drink? What did you pray for?
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Who was around you? Who was happy? Who was not? How you was feeling?
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How you was not feeling the whole thing?
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And I think this little episode of my podcast not only is a salute to the NBA
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champions, New York Knicks, but it's more or less of a little salute,
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more thanking the Knicks for giving me a memory of a lifetime.
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It is up there amongst my favorite championship. Hey, listen,
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I'm going to spoil the New York Yankees. And I'm going to say spoiler because
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it's more like the 90s. Come on, Nick. I mean, Yankees. Let's make it happen.
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New York Rangers, they got me the Stanley Cup, 1994. After 40 years.
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Interesting, number 11, Mark Messier.
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The captain of that team. Shout out to him. And somebody said shout out to number 11, Jalen Brunson.
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The captain of the Knicks. Bringing a championship after a 53-year drought.
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Matter of fact, 53-54 for the New York Rangers in 94.
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I'm a New York Giants fan. Eli Banning. Victor Cruz, David Tyree,
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Justin Tuck, Michael Strahan.
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Where the boys is at? Let's go.
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My first championship as a sports fan, especially New York Giants fan,
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but New York Giants, 1990, the 1990-91 season. Shout out to that team,
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Jeff Hosteller, OJ Anderson.
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People are going to say OJ Anderson. Sure, it's not OJ Simpson,
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though. It's OJ Anderson.
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You know, that whole team, like I said, LT, Lawrence Tater.
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But right now, I'm just thinking about this New York Knicks team and what happened on June 13, 2026.
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Hit the like button. Feel free to comment on where were you on that day when
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the New York Knicks won the championship? Where were you when you woke up?
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Where were you throughout the day when you was thinking, let's make it happen?
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Was there anything in you that said, we got this?
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But you know what? I felt it. Being close to many wonderful people.
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Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexican, black folks, a few white folks here and
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there, everybody, Jewish, Muslims, everybody.
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Look, Puerto Ricans love that meat. Well, we got a lot of people that we ate.
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Listen, we got some of the beans here. If you don't want the meat, we got you.
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For those out there who do not eat meat, much respect, because I saw a lot of,
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you know, I saw some few people out there. Hey, shout out to you.
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But guess what? You guys also had Knicks jersey. You had Knicks something.
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You had that spirit of New York City going in your blood that this is the year and this is the night.
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Because I'll be honest with you, I would have doubted the Knicks if they would have lost that game.
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Because San Antonio, if there's one thing about San Antonio,
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shout out to San Antonio, they let a lot of stuff fall through the cracks,
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let a lot of leads fall through their fingers.
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But one could say how much more games one would play for San Antonio to do safe.
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So we had to end this on Saturday.
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Please feel free to share with any of your Knicks fan, non-Knicks fan,
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or whoever it is that just happened to just kind of felt special following the
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Knicks, watching the New York Knicks play.
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Shout out to my sister-in-arms that, no, we're not going to shut down the Knicks.
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But shout out to a lot of people out there.
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Anyways, this is your boy, the Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
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Definitely got to do a couple of more podcasts, more indebted.
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Shout out to the Knicks and itself and the Knicks players out there and the coaches and the fans.
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Obviously, we will not be here. Knicks Nation will be here.
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If those Knicks fans out there who went out there to the street and for the
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most part did a lot of good stuff. I understand that they even helped out some
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of the sanitation workers pick out the garbage because that's what we do.
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The Knicks Nation. We have a little bit of a savage retreat,
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but for the most part, we are legendary good people because we are part of the
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greatest city in the world.
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Let's go, Nix. Peace. Let's go.