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The NEW YORK KNICKS are NBA Cup Champions! Is the NBA title next? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not putting in one of the top three offensive players in
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the league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron Judge and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see the one doing that A.
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Game where you got to go? For four I told you Giant fans
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and Saquon Barkley, Let's do it.
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How you job? I mean, you had a good weekend.
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How was your weekend? Yeah, it was good.
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We had the, the typical Jekyll and Hyde Nebraska weather.
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It was freezing cold. It was -5 this weekend.
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And then it was 61 today. So did did a lot of stuff
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outside as much as I could that you hadn't been able to do.
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Did a couple workouts outside. Got all the cars washed so you
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know the typical Jekyll and Hyde of what we have here.
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So you know it's December 16th and I'm I'm walking outside in
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shorts. It was fantastic so.
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Yeah, I like the weather here and I don't need to wear shorts.
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It's nice and cool. Yeah.
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No, it was. 28 but I got a buddy that wears shorts no matter what
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the temperature is so. I do too.
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I do. Too.
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But yeah, no, we it's funny. The shirt I'm wearing today is
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Carter's summer team that won the NBC World Series.
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They were the Champs and they won it in August and we just got
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our shirts. So they they take their sweet
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time. But congratulations, those guys,
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my son and all those guys. So congratulations.
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It's pretty cool. Yeah.
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All these all these shirts that you have like from travel ball
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and all the other things and like his first one in college as
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a freshman and, and all that stuff.
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So it's so it's pretty cool and it's obviously fun having him
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home. Granted, he's like a roommate
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and not my son because he's he's everywhere.
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He stops in and grabs clothes and eats and does all that
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stuff. That's what break is for.
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So he's he's having a good time and, and hanging out and he was
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like, dad, are you doing anything tonight?
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And I was like, no, we got the show.
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So you never know, he might jump in the office and sit here and
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BS with us. So that's fun.
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You never, you never know because he doesn't tell me
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either. So.
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So it could be a surprise to all of us.
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Well, I will say this and, and again, going back to obviously
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congratulations to your son and his teammates, but I will say
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this about living here in New York and, and experiencing of
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the Heisman Trophy dinner and, and experiencing all the media
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people that I got a chance to meet.
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Shout out to Auntie DC and everybody that I met.
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They're, they're all fantastic, great people, really are.
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And everybody is gracious and, and they know what we're
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actually doing. They've heard of our show and
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WPIX Perry, he, he loved some of the questions I asked to Mendoza
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and he said I'm going to steal some of them and I might even
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post it some of your questions up on WPIX.
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So it was fun to really experience watching some of
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these young guys have a chance to be in front of the New York
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market. The media, which everybody says
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it's the hardest media that the the weirdest media to deal with.
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Everywhere you go, you, you experience, if you're in Kansas
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City or Nebraska, nothing is like the New York media and
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dealing with some of the questions that are going to ask
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you and maybe even attacking you.
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And I, I just, I just felt like Mendoza had that it factor that
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that draw. If if you're, like I said, if
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you're a giant fan or a jet fan. And I'm telling you right now,
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if I'm the Giants, I am definitely interviewing Mendoza.
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I'm definitely interviewing him, giving him a chance to throw the
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ball at my facility and, and get a chance to get to know the kid.
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If you're drafting at 1, you can't just decide, oh, we got
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Jackson Dart. We're not going to interview
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this kid and see if this kid is a perfect fit here with the
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Giants and our organization. You have to do your due
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diligently and, and, and, and to and to me.
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The New York Giants are still trying to find that franchise
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quarterback after Eli Manning. Maybe Jackson Dart has looked
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good at some points this year. But he's also put himself in
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harm's way. He runs, he puts himself out.
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He moves himself out of the pocket where he can create
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injuries. He doesn't slide, right.
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So these are things that you have to look and you have to
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realize, is he the guy? Is he the person that I'm going
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to trust that he's going to stay healthy for the next 10 to 12
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years? And he's the guy that he's my go
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to guy that can help us help us win a Super Bowl.
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The Giants might never draft that one again in the next 10
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years. So if they're sitting there at
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1:00 at the end of the season, you definitely have to interview
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Mendoza. That's all I'm going to say for
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all you Giant fans out there. I know Giant fans love Jackson
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Dart, but you have to understand that this guy could be an
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absolute game changer for your organization.
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For the next 12 seasons or longer than that the NBA Cup
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final will be between the San Antonio Spurs and yes your New
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York Knicks. They tip off in Las Vegas.
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This is the third annual mid season tournament.
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Yes ladies and gentlemen, the Knicks have never been here but
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for the first time legitimate title contenders are competing
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for the cup. The spurs edged out the Thunder
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111 to one O 9 in the West semifinals to give the Thunder
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only their second loss of the season so far.
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Wembe return for the semifinals from a calf injury that lost him
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the previous 12 games, scoring 22 points in only 21 minutes in
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the win. The Knicks beat the Magic in the
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Eastern Semi Finals 132 to 120, led by 40 points from the one
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and only captain himself Jalen Brunson, who has been on a tear
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of Leigh. Brunson and the Knicks have now
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won nine of their last 10 games. OG Anobe and Karl Anthony Towns
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also had big games, scoring with 24 and 29 points respectfully.
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The winning teams players will get over 1/2 of $1,000,000 each
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for winning the NBA Cup, while the losers will take down just
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over 200 K. So guess what?
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The Knicks are going to win something.
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The players are going to win something.
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ESPN reports that the NBA is concerned with the low
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attendance this year for the NBA Cup playoff matchups in Vegas
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and conditioner Adam Silver is considering moving the 20 out of
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Sin City, New York. Knick fans, you should be
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excited because the Knicks have a chance to win some kind of
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championship. I don't know if this is going to
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give me any thought or any belief that the Knicks are going
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to win an NBA championship. So this is something to watch.
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And I I was reading a lot of stories over the last 24 to 48
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hours. Everybody was questioning the
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Knicks deciding to move past and move on from Tom Thibodeau and
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bringing in Mike. Was this the right time for the
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Knicks to do something like this?
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When you have Jaylen Bronson and Carl Anthony Towns going into
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their second year playing together and really the
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transition, adding the players that they added or they were
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going to add in the offseason to make this rotation a little bit
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more talented and more depth, well, it's been a slam dunk once
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again for our friend Mr. Leon Rose.
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Leon Rose has transitioned every single year.
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People questioning Leon Rose not showing up to press conferences
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or not saying much during the regular season, waiting to the
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offseason, waiting to the beginning of the season or pre
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season to even speak. He doesn't want to speak to the
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press, He doesn't want to say anything to the press.
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He just wants to be the quiet assassin that he has been over
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the last couple of seasons. Well, let's look back at what
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he's done over the years since he's taken over.
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He made a move and he brought Jaylen Brunson to the New York
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Knicks. They gave he gave Jaylen Brunson
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A2 year deal low balled. It gave him what, fifty, $60
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million and and Jaylen thinking Jaylen Brunson, who was a second
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round talent who made a run with The Mavericks that year to the
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Western Conference finals, falling short.
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He gave Jaylen Brunson an opportunity to come and play for
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a team that he always wanted to play for, where his father
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played for when he was a young kid, getting a chance to meet
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Patrick Ewing and John Starks and all those New York Knick
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teams that at one point we're fairly good.
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Jalen Brunson's a slam dunk. Well, what did they do?
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They drafted RJ Barrett. RJ Barrett was one of the young,
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promising young stars that the Knicks have had over the years.
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He was a third pick. Everybody was questioning, well,
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they could have gotten John Morant or they could have had,
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you know, they could have had the Beast from the East, from
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Duke and Williamson, and they fell short to get him.
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They brought in RJ Barrett. Well with that RJ Baron and
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making that move, drafting quickly at the end of the first
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round. What did the Knicks needed to do
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to to to add another player to this rotation?
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They needed that perimeter defender.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, they made a trade 2 off seasons ago
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or two trade trade deadlines ago.
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And who did they trade? They traded for OG and Anobi.
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OG and Anobi is a Kawhi Leonard type of player and look at what
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he's done transitioning. What did the Knicks do after
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that? Well, they decided to move past
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certain players. They they brought in Josh Hart
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over the over the last couple of years, Josh Harts, one of the
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best friend, 1 of Jalen Brunson's best friends.
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Then they decided to move past guys over over the last couple
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of years and then they bring in guys like Mikhail Bridges.
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They make a move. They they traded for McHale
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Bridgers. They give up five first round
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draft picks. They give up players and
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thinking McHale Bridges is the the, the, the kind of perimeter
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defender that's going to help OG Nobi make this team an elite
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defensive team. Well, last year in the playoffs,
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they fell short against Indiana, a team that had Tyrese
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Halliburton who killed the Knicks in the the Eastern
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Conference finals. Different year, different
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season. Well, last offseason they needed
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to make a move and they needed to have a big and they brought
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in Karl Anthony Towns. And Karl Anthony Towns was up
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and down last year, has been more of a transitional player
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over the last couple of months of the NBA season last year and
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then made that run in the playoffs.
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He was up and down. We don't know what Karl Anthony
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Towns is going to be with the New York Knicks in the playoffs.
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But what we do know what Karl Anthony Towns is, he's a double,
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double monster. He's one of the best offensive
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centers in the league, if not the best offensive center in the
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league. Now, we've been hearing the name
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Giannis being brought up in many conversations, and maybe Giannis
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will be a New York Knick one way or another this year.
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But this team has been a completely different team with
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Mike Brown. They added players in the
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offseason. They added Clarkson, Jordan
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Clarkson. Who gives them that, that
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perimeter offensive player that they may might have needed in
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the playoffs last year. McBride has transitioned very
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well with the New York Knicks. Could be a trade piece.
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Mitchell Robinson, when he does play, he is one of the best
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centers in the league, one of the best offensive and defensive
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rebounders in the league. This team is stacked.
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This team has depth. This team has a chance to win an
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NBA title this year. So did they trust MM Brown or
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Tom Thibodeau? And they went with Mike Brown.
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Why? Because Mike Brown is not
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running Jalen Brunson into the ground.
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He's playing for 3837 minutes. Josh Hart, they he, he moved
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them to the second team offense to now a first team offense.
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Josh Hart's transition his game and now he's fit in the starting
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lineup and maybe he is a starting lineup player as he's
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been sensational since he's been moved in the starting lineup.
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This team has won nine games out of 10 and it's been one of the
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best teams in all of the NBA. Why?
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Well, I just mentioned it. Everybody could say whatever
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they want about coaching. Everybody could say whatever
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they want about talent. It's the guy that built this
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team from scratch. And it was a guy that everybody
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did not believe was the right fit for the New York Knicks.
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That was the agent Leon Rose. So all you Knick fans right now
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sitting today listening to my take here, you want to give all
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the credit to Jaylen Bronson. You want to give all your credit
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to Carl Anthony Towns and McHale Bridges and OG and Anobi and how
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well they're playing. I think you got to pay homage.
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Homage. I'm sorry, I'm, I'm trying to
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use my words here. Pay homage to the one guy that
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needs and deserves a little bit more credit that most fans and
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most people never wanted to give and that's Leon Rose.
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Leon Rose has done everything. Him and Worldwide W built this
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team from scratch. Turn this team from one of the
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worst teams in the NBNBA to one of the best teams, if not the
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best team in the Eastern Conference right now and one of
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the top three teams in the NBA. Say whatever you want.
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He didn't have to make a move for LeBron James.
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He didn't have to make a move for Kawhi Leonard.
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Go ask the Clippers handing money under the table.
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He didn't have to do any of that.
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What did he do? He brought in a Jalen Brunson, a
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second round player who won, won national championships, 2
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national championships as a star point guard, and then all these
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other pieces and he played. He played a puzzle and the
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puzzle was match the colors blue, orange, white, blue,
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orange, white. And ladies and gentlemen, that
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is why the New York Knicks are playing for an NBA Cup.
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That is why the Knicks are going to be one of the favorites that
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are coming out of the Eastern Conference.
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And that is why I believe Giannis, when he becomes
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available at the trade deadline, is only going to going wanted to
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go to one place and that is the New York frigging Knicks.
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I said it, you heard it and I'll say it again.
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If Giannis becomes available and it is said that he will be, he
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will be a New York Knick. Why?
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Because of Leon Rose is the right guy for the job.
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Leon Rose knows what he's doing and he understands what it takes
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to win an NBA championship. And if there's anybody that's
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going to bring a championship home to this New York Knick fan
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base, it is Leon friggin Rose. That is my take, ladies and
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gentlemen. Say whatever you want about this
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NBA Cup. I could give a crap about it.
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I don't care how much money they make.
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I don't care who's in it. I don't care if it's the Knicks,
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the Spurs, the OKC Thunder, the Chicago Bulls, or, I don't know,
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the Westchester Knicks. I I don't care who is in the NBA
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Cup. What I do care about is where
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this team is going, what this team is and what this team is
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transitioning into. This team is now an NBA
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championship team. This team is now a force to be
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reckoned with. This team now has a future.
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Say whatever you want, trading picks, picks or nothing.
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We don't know what those picks are going to be.
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Go ask the New York Knicks when they traded Chris Stops
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Porzingis. Where did those picks go?
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What did those picks turn into? Nothing.
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They have a chance to win now, and if there's any New York team
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that has a chance to win a championship in the next year or
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two, it's this one. And thank you to Leon Rose, I'd
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say whatever you want. And thank you to the one they
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call James Dolan, who doesn't shut up, sings, plays his
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guitar, does whatever he does with his band.
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He finally has stepped away from this team and let the real
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basketball minds do the right friggin thing.
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And I love of it. This team is going to be a
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contender as long as they stay healthy.
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And yes, I don't think there, I don't think there's any team
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right now in Eastern Conference that even comes close to this
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team. The Cavaliers, the the, the
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Celtics, any of these teams, the Detroit Pistons who are ahead of
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them right now. None of those teams in A7 game
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series or even in the NBA 5 game series is going to beat this
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team because this team has all the pieces to win.
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Yeah, this is a team that lacked a pace and floor space last
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year, and you're definitely seeing a difference now with the
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way Mike Brown has brought a faster style of game into it.
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Because Tom Thibodeau never had a pace that was top ten, the
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bottom 10 in the NBA pretty much every year he was a Knicks coach
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last year was the fastest pace they actually played and it
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still felt slower compared to other teams.
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And you kind of need that kind of thing in today's NBA where
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you can get away with like not having the raw positions and raw
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stars at like point guard and center, stuff like that.
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Even though it kind of reverted back to the other direction with
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OK C and even the in previous years too.
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But the Knicks have a good versatility combination of
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everything and now they can finally play fast along with it.
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And the Knicks, you're right, Leon Rose was kind of questioned
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with a lot of these trades that he's making.
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He's trading all these other draft picks to do it kind of
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those quicker trades. I was a little skeptical at the
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time with the OG on an OB trade. I thought RJ Barrett was still
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had a lot more room to grow quickly was kind of an up and
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down player as it was, but type of player OG was.
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They were interested in trading for him last year and then all
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of a sudden that they they wanted to give up a little
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extra. Then the Raptors finally caved
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in and then all of a sudden the the Knicks are really building
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it. They have the best defensive 3
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point defense since OG I know became over that year.
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They then he just gets hurt in game seven.
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It's an unfortunate circumstance, but the Knicks
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have really built it on everything that you want.
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And now with it, like you said, the Eastern Conference all being
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the Pistons and Orlando, all these younger teams rising up.
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The Cavs are actually struggled since they had a hot start at
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the beginning of the year and with all these other teams
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having injuries, they're just not the same and the Knicks are
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really built a really good model off of this.
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It's just we'll see if they can make it work to get Giannis.
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You know, I hate, I hate when you say we'll see.
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There is no. We'll see when it comes to Leon
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Rose. There is no it's when it
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happens. When it happens, it's going to
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happen. If Giannis becomes available,
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you can book. He will be a New York Knick.
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Everything that Leon Rose has said, everybody that was
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questioning if Karl Anthony Towns was going to be a Knick 3
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years ago, four years ago, well, where's he played?
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He's played with the Knicks. Every single thing the New York
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Knicks or Leon Rose has said he was going to do, he's done it.
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So when you say well, if or that or this or that, it's when.
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It's when it happens because it will happen.
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This is for real, Nick fans, you should be proud of this team.
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You should be watching this team.
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You should be enjoying this team.
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I know nobody cares about the regular season.
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I could give a crap about the regular season.
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What I can and what I love to watch is I watch Jaylen Brunson
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put up 40 against an Orlando Magic team.
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That's actually a pretty good, good defensive team, a pretty
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good young team. I love when I see my players
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start to do that, to develop as a team, something that those
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Knicks with Carmelo Anthony could never do, Amari Stoudemire
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could never do. And when I remember the great
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Nick games of Pat Riley and Jeff Van Gundy, that Patrick Ewings,
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the Anthony Masons, the Charles Oakley's, the John Starks, or
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even the God damn Charles Smith, the debacle, debacle, debacle,
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whatever his stupid layup that cost the New York Knicks a
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chance to win a championship against the Rockets, I remember
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those times because those teams had the depth.
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Those teams actually knew what they're doing.
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This team has the depth, they're more talented, they have the
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star power, they have everything you want, and there's only one
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reason why Leon friggin Rose. How do you love that?
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Yeah, You said about like the regular season.
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I wanted to see if like the the NBA Cup.
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Do you think that's added value? No or not.
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It's all it takes to me. Well, all it shows me and all it
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takes is that the NBA is trying to make money.
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They want to sell new jerseys. All these jerseys, they're nice,
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beautiful colored floors and all that other stuff that all the
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fans all look at that, look at that nice jersey.
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I want to get myself a nice jersey.
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That's all it is. It's all a, a selling point.
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And these players like it because they got a chance to
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maybe win a they're going to have champagne.
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If they win a championship, Well, the Cup, they celebrate in
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the backroom like they want an NBA championship.
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It's not the same thing. Nobody.
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I'll tell you this right now, If Jalen Brunson and New York
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Knicks win this game tonight, they're not going to be jumping
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for joy like they won an NBA championship.
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I guarantee you, Jalen Brunson says this is great, this is
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fantastic, but this isn't an NBA championship.
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And that's what we're playing for.
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That's what you want your captain to say and that's what
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you want your team to say. You don't want to think that
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because you won this, you're the next.
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You have the next opportunity to win a championship because go
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look at the last two teams that have won the NBA Cup.
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Did they win an NBA championship?
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Never. OKC lost against Milwaukee last
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year. They won an NBA championship,
23:13
but they lost in the Cup. The Lakers won the the first Cup
23:18
ever the year before that. Did they win an NBA
23:20
championship? No, they barely made the
23:22
playoffs. So it's there.
23:24
To me, there's no guarantees just because you win this NBA
23:28
Cup that you're going to have a chance to win an NBA
23:29
championship. But I'm going to tell you this,
23:31
if there's any team that can win the NBA Cup and win the NBA
23:36
championship in the same year for the first time, it's this
23:39
team. There's just something about
23:40
this team. I it took a while for them to
23:42
figure things out, but you can see the confidence.
23:45
You could see Josh Hart going up there after the media, talking
23:50
to the media with Jaylen Brunson after the game when they beat
23:53
Orlando on. And they could just go off set
23:55
and talk about how big Jaylen Brunson's heads it head is and,
23:59
and completely go off set and not even care about winning that
24:03
game. And going to the NBA Cup, it, it
24:05
shows you the, the, the kind of potential they have and just the
24:10
confidence and, and the love they have for one another.
24:13
They can make fun of each other and they don't even care that
24:16
they're going to this NBA Cup and, and they're going to get a
24:18
chance to win 500K each. They don't care.
24:21
It doesn't mean anything to them.
24:22
It's all about winning an NBA championship.
24:25
They know it, we know it, and all the Knick fans should know
24:28
it, that it's all about winning an NBA championship.
24:31
I do want to finish up with the New York Knicks.
24:32
Can we get every everybody in the link so we can kind of get
24:36
Fish's take on this? I, I gave you my take on the
24:40
whole, the whole Leon Rose thing.
24:42
Fish, are we good over there? Are you good?
24:45
Is there any echo? Only one only one way to find
24:47
out. Sounds good to me right now.
24:49
I don't hear any echo job of how you feeling.
24:52
I listen. I don't know guys that live is
24:54
live for a reason. It's it's always funny when
24:58
things go wrong. Sometimes you have all this cool
25:00
stuff planned and life gets in your way.
25:02
But that aside, the Knicks are down one at halftime this game.
25:08
It's a lot of fun. They're very competitive.
25:11
Wembe is just a problem. Like you just can't do anything.
25:14
You know, you were talking about Charles Smith and like the five
25:16
offensive rebounds couldn't get the layup in our boy.
25:19
Mitch Robinson just had that moment against Wembe earlier
25:22
tonight. Well, he's not.
25:24
He's a problem man. That's a problem.
25:26
Charles Smith was a better offensive player than Mitch
25:28
Robinson. So.
25:30
Well, yes, but it was still like one of the most memorable
25:35
horrible Nick things. Yeah, I remember it very, very
25:37
well. So.
25:38
I was. I'm a little bit older than you,
25:40
so I remember it, yeah. It was like one of my first Nick
25:44
memories. Like for me I was like 7 or.
25:46
Eight I was 12 when. It happened.
25:48
I was 12 years old. I remember it like it was
25:50
yesterday and I'll never forget it.
25:52
And Charles Woodson going up on a layup.
25:54
And Patrick? You, Charles Woodson, I'm.
25:57
Charles Smith. Charles Smith was going up for a
25:59
layup, and I remember Patrick Ewing standing right at the
26:02
hoop, and I have no idea why it was going to Charles Smith.
26:06
And that was the same series where I remember John Starks in
26:11
game #7 chucking up 3 after three, after three, brick after
26:16
brick after brick, and made me sit to my stomach.
26:19
And I remember. I'll tell you guys a funny quick
26:21
story. I met John Starks years ago.
26:24
I'll never forget it. It was like 10 years ago when I
26:26
was in an event. It was a cigar event because
26:29
John Starks loves his cigars. And I was going up there and
26:33
everybody was asking for his order.
26:34
I'm not an autograph guy. So I, I said, John, I, I just
26:38
want to speak to you about something.
26:39
And he said, what's up? And he said, what's your name?
26:41
And I said my name, just call me, call me E.
26:44
And he said, OK, E tell what do you, what would you like to talk
26:47
about? I said Game 7.
26:49
And he said, oh, here we go. And I said game seven NBA Finals
26:54
against the Houston Rockets. Do you remember that?
26:56
He says, of course I remember that.
26:57
I said, do you remember how many 3 pointers you missed in that
27:01
game? And he gave me exactly how many
27:04
3 pointers and, and exactly how many 3 pointers went in.
27:08
And it was to me, he says it was the most embarrassing, most
27:13
embarrassing thing he remembers in his career.
27:15
And he says it's something that he wants to forget.
27:17
And I said, what is the most memorable thing you remember in
27:20
your career? He says, when I dunked over
27:22
Michael Jordan at Madison Square Garden, and there's, and if
27:26
anybody hasn't seen the picture, there's pictures.
27:28
And Michael Jordan says, wait a second, he didn't dunk over me,
27:31
but he did dunk over Michael Jordan.
27:33
And I remember it very, very well.
27:35
So John Starks is very gracious, very nice kid.
27:39
I mean, very nice kid, very nice dude, loves his cigars and he
27:42
looks pretty good. He lost a lot of weight from the
27:44
time that I met. I met him 10 years ago to now.
27:47
John Starks looks like he's a player.
27:49
He was. He's he looks like he.
27:51
Dunks on Horace Grant and Jordan flies through.
27:54
Let's take a look. I got it up right here.
27:56
He got Starks going to his right.
27:58
A great move to get in there and then dunks to the left.
28:01
Jordan, if you if you watch the the poster shot, Jordan was
28:04
right there. Well, Jordan's right there.
28:06
But look, the reason why Jordan's right there, he's
28:08
coming from the foul line. Yeah, but you know.
28:10
It's still. He's still and like porous
28:12
grants ass got in Jordans way, yeah.
28:15
But if I'm John Starks, I'm saying I dunked over.
28:17
Jordan 100% saying I dunked on Jordan.
28:20
I wouldn't say it's like he dunked on Jordan, though.
28:24
You know what I mean? But listen, I love John Starks.
28:27
When I was a kid, I pretended to shoot free throws like in the
28:32
schoolyard. Like John Starks.
28:33
He would like, he would spin the ball and he would like blow out
28:37
air. For some reason he would just do
28:39
this like very and like his eyes would get real wide open and he
28:42
had to do that every single time before he took a foul shot.
28:45
And I just did that as a kid because he was I was very
28:47
impressionable of him in basketball and in baseball.
28:50
I tried to Paul O'Neill. I would just keep like doing
28:54
like that. Although I was a right warrior.
28:56
I would just try to do it like because he had this very
28:58
specific like he would just constantly like almost like he's
29:00
like just get like golf swing like before he would like.
29:03
I got a question for you. Who was Paul O'Neill traded for?
29:08
Roberto Kelly, That's right. I.
29:11
Always talk about it. You're talking about like one of
29:13
my favorite players of all time. I'm going to know that one.
29:15
But you've probably got you got me.
29:17
If you went like 5 years earlier, I'd know nothing.
29:19
I just wanted to say something about the NBA Cup before we move
29:22
on. It's not really like a
29:23
basketball tournament. I was saying it's like a poker
29:25
tournament and it's for $300,000 because the winner gets like 530
29:29
K and the loser gets like 211 and they Congrats to them for
29:34
getting this point. That's a lot of money.
29:36
John's Josh Hart, they were saying Jalen Bruns was making
29:41
fun of him, like ever since he got robbed.
29:43
We had did a report on the sportsman a few weeks ago, Josh
29:45
Harkart robbed during one of the games and something happened
29:49
with the hotel. Little little story there.
29:52
We're not going to really get into that.
29:54
But ever since that he's been playing like his hair.
29:57
This NBA Cup, he's wants that money back.
29:59
So they're going to have a good chance of it.
30:02
It's a fun team. Their postgame one time when
30:05
they they were making fun of Jalen Brunson tithe for being
30:08
like the coldest 6 foot player and they just started laughing
30:11
and Brunson like calls him out it's hilarious.
30:14
It's it's great. And at the same time, like there
30:17
was a a video circulating earlier today of like Josh
30:20
Hart's kids with the Jalen Brunson on the court.
30:23
And it was really cool. And you get to see just like how
30:26
tight these guys are. And, you know, it kind of makes
30:28
me really want them to bring D Vincenzo back at some point.
30:31
That's a rumor like that. That's a rumor right now.
30:34
If look if you give a late first round pick you know from like 2
30:37
years from now whatever they have to do.
30:38
That's not what I'm hearing. So, So there's a story right now
30:42
where the Knicks, they're looking for a perimeter 3 point
30:45
shooter and Dante Divicenzo is a name that the the Knicks
30:49
actually reached out to the Timberwolves over the last week
30:52
and they asked them, they asked the Timberwolves what what are
30:56
they looking for when it comes to Dante Divicenzo?
30:58
I think the Knicks are going. To I hope they want Packholm
31:00
Dodier because they can have him.
31:03
Shamet I mean, I I mean there's, there's.
31:05
Guys. Yeah, there there is guys on the
31:08
Knicks right now that I could see the Timberwolves being
31:11
interested in. The Timberwolves are a playoff
31:13
team. They're looking obviously.
31:15
So for some rebounding or of that magnitude.
31:18
I don't think they trade Mitch. Mitch is too, too important of a
31:21
player, especially if they don't trade free.
31:23
Honest. But don't be surprised at the
31:25
trade deadline that the Knicks landed Dante Divicenzo, because
31:29
I could see them bringing in Giannis and Dante Divicenzo and
31:33
McBride could be a guy a piece that the Knicks could move, even
31:35
though McBride's been sensational.
31:37
So like Giannis move, like the Giannis move is like that mellow
31:40
move, though, right from from back in the day when you have to
31:43
trade a few of those pieces and break up the team.
31:47
I don't think this is a team you break up.
31:48
They're going to end up first in the East, even with, you know,
31:53
Cat, who gets eviscerated by Yannis every time they face each
31:57
other. Listen, I'm I Yannis is a much
32:00
better player than Cat. I would rather he tasted.
32:02
But at the same time, same time, it makes sense because Cats got
32:06
that stretch three stretch 5 ability to shoot the three and
32:10
he can drive off the off the three-point line on any big.
32:14
It's really great to have that. He's a flawed player defensively
32:18
and he's not like my like he gets lots of rebounds, but he's
32:21
not my favorite rebounder when there's against the guy who's
32:23
really good as well. And I think they could do
32:26
better. But this is the bed they made.
32:28
They trade all their first round picks for Mikhail Bridges couple
32:31
years ago. They're not going to be able to.
32:33
They still have a couple. They still have a couple, but
32:36
you know, again, it's like the big swing is probably not there.
32:40
They have a bunch of second round draft picks too.
32:43
They have a bunch. The team I worry about getting
32:45
Giannis is the team that makes facing right now.
32:48
Wow. The team that face, they're not
32:49
facing right now. They're not getting a ton of
32:51
assets. Yeah, but I don't a hole at that
32:53
position. I don't think they're going to
32:54
do that. I don't think they're going to
32:55
do that and there's a lot of reasons why they're not going to
32:57
do that because right now this is the first time that you have
33:00
a healthy team, dear and fox, you have the kid Harper there
33:03
and you have weapon Yama. They're playing good basketball.
33:06
I cannot see and I no, no, the thing I don't know if Giannis
33:11
wants to go down South. I, I, I, I've heard, I've heard
33:16
that Giannis wants to go to a big place.
33:18
He wants to go to a, a place where he could be a big star
33:21
star. Miami's the team that I worry
33:23
about. If if you were to ask me right
33:24
now where if I was Giannis, if there's a city besides New York
33:29
I'd go to, it's Miami. He'd be huge over there.
33:32
The fans love their basketball. And if they trade like Bam out
33:38
of bio and maybe a couple other pieces and they could still keep
33:41
Tyler Hero there and they can add some shooters at the trade
33:44
deadline. That's all you need to win with
33:47
a guy like Giannis. So I could see Pat Riley just
33:50
sneaking right up on the Knicks and telling the Knicks to go
33:52
kiss their ass. So, and we see Pat Riley do that
33:55
to the New York Knicks over the. Years.
33:57
You can see that too. Yeah.
33:58
So I don't want to see it, but if there's a team that could
34:01
sneak up, I don't think there's any other team besides Miami.
34:05
And everybody keeps saying, look at OK, C, OK C is not, they're
34:09
not trading away their. Assets who?
34:11
Who makes trades when they're 25 and they're not or whatever
34:15
they're not, they are. You know what?
34:16
I mean, they're not, they're not trading dude.
34:17
They got a top ten pick coming to them.
34:20
How much better can they be? A lot better.
34:23
Right, No, no, I'm saying like with through a trade right now,
34:28
like are are we really going to be?
34:30
You can't be better. You're basically invincible
34:33
already. It's just like you can hurt the
34:36
chemistry through trades, dude, you know what I mean?
34:38
And that's something they don't talk about enough.
34:40
They have a chance to get a top ten pick this year and it's a
34:43
very good chance they're going to get.
34:45
A top ten pick. Yep, they're going to get a top
34:48
ten pick with every all the injuries that the Clippers are
34:50
dealing with right now. I don't think the Clippers are a
34:52
playoff team. I think the Harding signing, I
34:55
think the Harding signing is one of the worst signings they could
34:58
actually do to that organization right now.
35:00
Signing him to a two year extension, he's making the kind
35:02
of money that he's making is ridiculous.
35:04
James Harden is not the answer and Kawhi Leonard is.
35:07
He wants out of Clipperville. So I could see that's another
35:12
piece that could be available for the New York Knicks if they
35:15
miss out on Giannis. So that could be another guy
35:18
that the New York Knicks could move for because he's a
35:21
perimeter and OG and Anobi. I don't think OG and Mikhail
35:24
Bridges, as much as I love both of those guys work very well
35:27
together. I think they keep Mikhail, they
35:30
move on from OG and and they'll bring in another big price
35:33
player because they're going to you're going to have to match
35:35
salaries with the NBA. You have to do that.
35:37
So I could see that happening. Speaking, do you have anything
35:41
else to say about the New York Knicks right now and this this
35:45
Cup, this NBA Cup? Is there anything?
35:49
Just go Knicks. Honestly, I could care less if
35:53
the Knicks win this Cup. I want to see them win an NBA
35:55
championship. I want to see the New York fans
35:58
climbing, climbing buildings like Spider Man.
36:01
Didn't LeBron hang the NBA Cup banner please over over there in
36:06
LA? Please, I don't want to hear
36:08
about LeBron James. By the way, I check out, I don't
36:12
know if anybody watches LeBron James's podcast is he does a
36:16
podcast with Steve Nash and I watched, I'm just saying I
36:21
watched one of his takes over the weekend recently on
36:25
particular players in the NBA. I'm not going to mention a
36:27
player, but what he said about a certain NBA player would just
36:32
make you. I would smack that, you know
36:34
what, out of LeBron James, I, I, I'm just being honest.
36:38
I'm not going to mention a player.
36:39
If you haven't checked out, I got a feel, I got a feeling
36:42
we're going to be able to talk about it later and dial it up.
36:45
Yes. Anyways, ladies and gentlemen,
36:48
my golf clap of the day. This deserves a golf clap.
36:51
No doubt. Golf clap, Golf clap.
36:56
My golf clap of the day goes to the New York Jets.
36:59
Finally, ladies and gentlemen, they fired Steve Wilkes.
37:04
I don't know for any Jet fan out there that thought, Steve Wilkes
37:07
said I had a job or should have had his job, or should The Jets
37:10
have hired him in the offseason? Steve Wilkes has had so much
37:14
complications everywhere. He's gone when he went to
37:16
Arizona, one year gone. When he went to Carolina, how
37:20
many years was he? I think it was one year gone.
37:22
The guy can't keep a job. He can't hold on to a job.
37:25
Why? Because he's so sorry defensive
37:28
coordinator and over the last couple of games it's just been
37:31
humiliating watching this defense just at work and then
37:35
watching the the yes the Jaguars put up a 48 spot or put over 40
37:40
points up on it on The Jets defense was absolutely
37:43
embarrassing. Trevor Lawrence throwing how
37:44
many touchdowns, 5 touchdowns? I don't think Trevor Lawrence
37:47
threw 5 touchdowns in in a three three-game spanned and this guy
37:51
threw 5 touchdowns in one game. Absolutely embarrassing.
37:56
And Aaron Glenn contains take it anymore as well.
37:58
And I thought Aaron Glenn was going to stick with him for at
38:01
least the season. He couldn't after this.
38:04
This was an embarrassment for the New York Jets organization
38:06
and The Jets as a whole. And Steve Wilkes is a debacle.
38:10
And like I've said and I've called this over the last couple
38:13
of weeks, Aaron Glenn will take over the play calling as far as
38:17
the defensive play calling moving forward for the rest of
38:20
the season and next year as well as he should have.
38:22
He should have never hired Steve Wilkes.
38:24
It was a big mistake and now you can see why he should have
38:27
never. Steve Wilkes.
38:28
So my golf clap goes to the New York Jets.
38:30
Why? Because finally Aaron Glenn
38:34
fires this idiot, this debacle of a defensive coordinator.
38:38
So my golf clap goes to the New York Jets.
38:39
Finally, finally they fired this idiot.
38:44
Steve Wilkes. Thank you to all the fans that
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39:13
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39:17
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39:43
new year. So we spread out the shows and
39:45
we get all the content out. Speedy, who do we have on?
39:48
I believe Jabba. Has our guest for Thursday
39:50
there. You go.
39:51
Who do we have? We got B Hoke.
39:53
There you go. We got Brian Hoke coming on the
39:56
show. He was out there at the winter
39:59
meetings. What are the Yankees do?
40:01
Are the Yankees making moves? Is it going to happen?
40:05
Are they gonna sign Cody Bellinger?
40:06
They're gonna sign the Japanese pitcher that everybody keeps
40:08
saying the Yankees are favored to get.
40:11
Where did the Yankees go? Because how Steinburn A bitching
40:14
and moaning like how you make enough money.
40:19
I buy hats every single week and I'm giving you guys money.
40:23
Stop bitching and moaning about spending money.
40:26
Go out there and spend some money.
40:28
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40:30
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40:33
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