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Knicks Sweep Cavs to Reach Finals Since 1999; Spurs Needed Intervention from Coach Pop; All-NBA Teams Announced · 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: Thank you so much for joining me.
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  Speaker 2: at the Daily Play Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: So the Knicks, the Knicks are in the Finals. I
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  Speaker 1: cannot believe it. Oh my god, I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't believe that I'm excited about this.
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  Speaker 2: As a heat ban, it's sacrilegious, but they're just so
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  Speaker 2: fun to watch. And they're rolling another sweep of the
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  Speaker 2: Calves to claim the Eastern Conference Championship, winning game four
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  Speaker 2: one thirty ninety three, completely dominant.
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  Speaker 1: It was a dog walking The Calves showed no fight.
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson named Eastern Conference Finals MVP, but really they
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  Speaker 2: showed up as a group. Josh Hart, Michale Bridges, Ognobie
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  Speaker 2: Landry Shimmitt, and Karl Anthony Towns all came through and
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  Speaker 2: Kat talked about what it meant to break through for
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  Speaker 2: his first finals appearance, and he said, it's an arm
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do this for the team.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up cheering for.
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  Speaker 2: To have Patrick Ewing and these fans cheering us on
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  Speaker 2: even on the road.
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  Speaker 1: All we had to do is put the work, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why we're here right now. Listen, I am so
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  Speaker 1: excited about the Knicks being in the finals. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's wrong with me.
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  Speaker 2: I have to be serious. It's incredible that the Knicks
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  Speaker 2: are in the finals. I've always said this throughout my
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  Speaker 2: entire career. I have maintained that there are just certain
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  Speaker 2: times when the NBA thrives, and it is when the
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  Speaker 2: big brands are crushing it. And what's a bigger brand
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  Speaker 2: than the New York Knicks.
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  Speaker 1: I love this. I love the knickser in the finals.
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  Speaker 2: I love that the Knicks fans are going to be
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  Speaker 2: able to boast for years to come and piss everyone
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  Speaker 2: off and be obnoxious.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we need. And they're an old school team and.
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  Speaker 2: They play physical and they play defense, and they distribute
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  Speaker 2: the ball and it's not relying on one place. I
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  Speaker 2: just I love what the Knicks have put together. I
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  Speaker 2: love it for Mike Brown, I love it for Jalen Brunson.
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  Speaker 2: They are on a historical run throughout the playoffs, eleven
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  Speaker 2: straight playoff games that they've won. Their last loss was
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  Speaker 2: Game three of the first round, back when we were
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  Speaker 2: unsure if they were even going to make it out
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  Speaker 2: of the first rounds and here they are after two
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  Speaker 2: back to back sweeps to make it to the finals.
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  Speaker 2: I think it is so spectacular. Everyone thinks it's all Brunson,
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  Speaker 2: but three different leading scorers in the series, five different
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  Speaker 2: leading scorers in the playoffs. I love this for the Knicks.
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  Speaker 2: I love it for Knicks fans. I love it for
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  Speaker 2: New York. I love it for the NBA. I love
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  Speaker 2: it for the brands and whatever happens in the finals.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that the Knicks have gone beyond what they
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  Speaker 2: were last year and made it to the finals and
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  Speaker 2: done it in dominant fashion. I think it's spectacular for
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  Speaker 2: the league. It's been so fun to watch. I'm happy
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  Speaker 2: to have been wrong about this series. Although I would
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  Speaker 2: have liked a little more basketball and would have liked
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  Speaker 2: it to be a little more competitive, I think that
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  Speaker 2: it adds to the narrative what we're to see in
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  Speaker 2: the finals, of what we're going to see in the finals, and.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: I love old school basketball, I love fans getting rewarded.
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  Speaker 2: And what a better fan base than the Knicks, who
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  Speaker 2: have been through a lot with their owner, with injuries,
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  Speaker 2: with turnover with expectations and disappointment. It's a great story
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  Speaker 2: and I'm so excited that the Knicks are in the
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  Speaker 2: finals and I just can't wait to see who's going
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  Speaker 2: to match up with them and what's going to happen
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  Speaker 2: in the Western Conference finals, which we'll talk about now.
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  Speaker 2: So the Spurs needed Pops help to turn a Game
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  Speaker 2: three dud into a tide series with Okay and San
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  Speaker 2: Antonio controlling the momentum. So Spurs got back to full
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  Speaker 2: strength in Game four, Daron Fox making his serious debut
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  Speaker 2: and Dylan Harper making his return to the lineup, and
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  Speaker 2: they also got a good word from Pop, who set
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  Speaker 2: the stage for a huge series tying win. Every team
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  Speaker 2: gets blown out, but just mentality wise, I think Game
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  Speaker 2: three was one of the worst games we had, probably
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  Speaker 2: of the season that according to Daron Fox. Then Pop
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  Speaker 2: came in after the game, he saw it. We all
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  Speaker 2: saw it. We all felt it coming into this game.
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  Speaker 2: We wanted to make sure that mentality was out the door.
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  Speaker 2: Even if we lost this game, as long as we
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  Speaker 2: came in with the right mentality and play the right way,
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  Speaker 2: we could be okay with.
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  Speaker 1: Losing that game.
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  Speaker 2: The way that we lost Game three, I think hurt
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  Speaker 2: more than losing the game, and that was pretty much
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  Speaker 2: for everybody in the locker room. There was an incredible
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  Speaker 2: shot of Mitch Johnston and Wemby and Pop and Tim Duncan,
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  Speaker 2: and kudos to the director for catching that shot. But
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  Speaker 2: there's so something really special about this team, and if
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  Speaker 2: they end up winning, they're gonnaend up being the villains
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  Speaker 2: and then we'll cycle back to the same thing that
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  Speaker 2: we were doing with okay see last year. But there
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  Speaker 2: is something special about this team. There's a youthfulness, there's
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  Speaker 2: a changing of the guard, there is a nostalgia.
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  Speaker 1: There is this.
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  Speaker 2: Hallowed basketball mentor in Pop that is really special. And
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  Speaker 2: I think what I love about what's happened with the
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  Speaker 2: NBA for the last two years, because of all the
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  Speaker 2: pushback that the NBA has gone for defense and for flopping,
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  Speaker 2: is that we've really gone to more of an old
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  Speaker 2: school system, in an old school way of playing both
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  Speaker 2: ends of the floor. And that is something that Wemby
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  Speaker 2: really believes in and fights for and advocates for and
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  Speaker 2: wants to be known for. And in his first Playoffs ever,
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  Speaker 2: coming off of a thirty four and thirty eight season,
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  Speaker 2: last year. They're in a fantastic position, and I feel
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  Speaker 2: that they are ahead of schedule because he's such a
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  Speaker 2: young player and they have had so much turnover, so
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  Speaker 2: it's it's really been spectacular to see what they've done defensively,
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  Speaker 2: keeping Shay to nineteen points on six of fifteen shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Stefan Castle has been just a superstar.
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  Speaker 2: Wemby has stepped up in a lot of different ways,
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's just been really impressive what the
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  Speaker 2: Spurs have done, and they have become the darlings of
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  Speaker 2: this postseason, even with the Knicks making the finals. So
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  Speaker 2: the NBA also announced the All NBA teams. First team
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  Speaker 2: is the top five MVP vote getters, Shay, Wemby, Nikola Jokic, Luka,
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  Speaker 2: and Kate Cunningham. The second team is Jaylen Brown, Jalen Brunson,
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Durantz, Donovan Mitchell, and Kawhi Leonard. This is Durant's
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  Speaker 2: twelfth time being named to the All NBA Team, six
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  Speaker 2: on the first team and six on the second, and
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  Speaker 2: he is the first player in NBA history to be
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  Speaker 2: named to an All NBA team for five different franchises.
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  Speaker 1: The third team features five.
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  Speaker 2: Newcomers Jalen Johnson, Jaylen, Duran Tyrese, Maxie chet Holmgerm and
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  Speaker 2: Jamal Murray. No Lebron, no Steph, no Joannis. This is
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  Speaker 2: a new world, so don't get crazy, Lakers. Lebron was
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  Speaker 2: not eligible to get votes because he didn't play enough games,
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  Speaker 2: and this is only his second time in his twenty
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  Speaker 2: three season career that he was not an All NBA
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  Speaker 2: pick and also not eligible with Steph Curry and Jannis
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  Speaker 2: because of the sixty five game rule. So I'm fine
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  Speaker 2: with that. I'm fine with the rule as it stands
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  Speaker 2: right now. I do think it's kind of complicated and
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  Speaker 2: the NBA is working through trying to sort outload management, which,
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  Speaker 2: if you know your history, was created by Greg Popovic.
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  Speaker 2: But this feels correct, and congrats to all of the
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  Speaker 2: All NBA players who had fantastic seasons. This has been
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  Speaker 2: a great, great, great NBA season and I can't wait
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  Speaker 2: to see who.
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  Speaker 1: Ends up in the finals from the Western Conference.
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