I Just Watched the Garden Come Back From the Dead

Rice on the Radio · May 20, 2026 · 26m · transcript

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The Knicks were dead. The Garden was quiet. The Cavs had a 22-point fourth-quarter lead and looked like they were walking out of Madison Square Garden with Game 1.

Then Jalen Brunson happened.

In this episode, I react to one of the greatest Knicks games I’ve ever watched: New York’s insane 115-104 overtime comeback over Cleveland in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals. We get into Brunson putting the team on his back, the Garden coming back to life, Landry Shamet’s huge fourth-quarter minutes, Cleveland’s collapse, and why this Knicks team feels absolutely unkillable.

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