Knicks-Cavs season opener preview

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00:00Do you think this game will reveal where Cleveland and or New York stands among the East elite?

00:07So I think for the Cavs, they were 15-0 to start last year in the Kenny Atkinson regime.

00:11If this year they start 0-1, I don't think there's anything to worry about.

00:14They're getting their new guys acclimated.

00:16They're facing a Knicks team that has a brand new system, a new defensive identity.

00:20They're going to have a new offensive identity.

00:22They got a new leader.

00:23They lost every game to the top two teams in the East and West last regular season.

00:27I think considering that, the Cavs swept them, the Celtics swept them.

00:30They couldn't take the Thunder.

00:32They still beat the Celtics in the playoffs, even though they didn't win in the regular season.

00:36I think for confidence sake, Cavs fans are going to use the argument of the Knicks didn't beat regular season teams last year.

00:43And Knicks fans could throw the flip that, oh, you were 15-0, now we beat you.

00:46Things are different here, fellas.

00:48Both teams will have some kind of bragging right, getting it done.

00:51But I don't think that either team should put too much stake.

00:54Because they're going to meet again on Christmas, and I think that game on Christmas Day,

00:58noon start at the Garden, could be one of the best regular season games in the NBA this year.

01:03That's the game we're going to look at and say, hey, this one game tells us a lot.