Should the Knicks Hang a Banner for Winning the Emirates Cup?

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00:00When the Knicks do win, and they're going to win the Emirates in-season cup,

00:04those four teams, as you said, they're going to Vegas, and they'll play it out, okay?

00:08Yeah, go ahead.

00:09All right, so here we go, all right?

00:11When the Knicks win, we have an interesting decision we have to make as Knicks fans,

00:16as the Knicks organization, and I'm a counselor, as you may know, to the Knicks organization.

00:21I've heard that.

00:22Okay.

00:23Do we put a banner up or not?

00:27And let me just give you some history of this, okay?

00:28The L.A. Lakers said prior to winning their in-season cup a few years back

00:33that they would never put an in-season banner up next to actual NBA championship banners.

00:39And then because LeBron's there, and LeBron obviously needs people to, you know,

00:45anoint him as the greatest player of all time, LeBron went to the Buss family and said,

00:49I want a banner.

00:51Give me a banner.

00:52That's not what I was talking about.

00:53And Jenny Buss and the crew were like, okay, LeBron, fine, if it means that much to you.

00:57And the Lakers went against their word and actually hung a banner and had a celebration

01:02for it, right?

01:04The Milwaukee Bucks did not hang a banner when they won, and they don't have anywhere near

01:09as many championships, as you know, that the Lakers do.

01:13The New York Knicks have not won a championship since 1973.

01:18We've had nothing to celebrate, literally, Tyrone, in over 50 years.

01:23If and when the Knicks win the cup, should the Knicks hang a banner?

01:29I've got an answer, but you're not a Knick fan.

01:33Yeah.

01:33So I want to hear the outsider's view of this before I tell you what should happen.

01:38Go.

01:38Now, should we do any fact checks or should we wait till Friday?

01:42I fact-checked it for you already.

01:44No.

01:44The Lakers hung a banner.

01:46The Bucks did not.

01:47The Bucks did hang a banner.

01:48They did not.

01:49I'm looking at it.

01:50They did not hang a banner.

01:51I can walk you through what happened on another day.

01:54You're required to hang it.

01:55You are not required to hang it, and I know that's a prevailing thought out there.

01:59A lot of people think you are required to hang a banner, but you're not.

02:04You are.

02:05Nope.

02:06Therefore, the Knicks, plus, being that the Knicks never win anything.

02:10They haven't won in a long time.

02:11They never win anything.

02:13Uh-huh.

02:13The Knicks not only should, they should do it with pride.

02:18Okay, and you're so wrong about that, and I'm glad you said that.

02:22And they're required to do it anyway.

02:23Okay, they're not required.

02:25They are.

02:25It is a team decision because it's a team award type of thing in a team's building that the

02:31NBA does not control.

02:33So here's the reality.

02:34Well, I will celebrate winning it like a seven-year-old boy in first grade who pumps his chest out

02:41and peacocks on the way into first grade, okay?

02:44Okay.

02:45I will celebrate being the best team in basketball, not name the Thunder, okay?

02:50If you beat them, yeah.

02:51But the banner's got to mean something real.

02:55And if I've got a 1973 banner hanging from the rafters of Madison Square Garden, I don't

03:02have a banner up there for anything else.

03:04Is there, there's no Easter Conference champion banner from the finals run?

03:08Yeah, but we mock those.

03:08We mock those.

03:09The only banners that matter are championship banners, okay?

03:11That's fair.

03:12All right?

03:13There, you see the banners right there, okay?

03:15Billy Joel gets a banner.

03:17Well, he had them sold old sellouts.

03:19Sold out the garden a hundred times.

03:20A million dollars, right?

03:21You're going to have all those sellouts, yeah.

03:23So, I want to be clear about this.

03:25I don't want a banner up there.

03:26I want to celebrate it.

03:28I want to enjoy it.

03:29If you want to give out some complimentary t-shirts that say, you know, Emirates Cup champions,

03:34I'm good with that.

03:35I'll rock the shirt.

03:36Put them on all the seats.

03:37I'll rock it.

03:37But the banners should be reserved for real championships only.

03:44And my gut is my main man, James Dolan, the owner of the Rangers and the New York Knicks

03:49and the Garden, feels the same way.

03:51And here's how I know that.

03:52All right.

03:52The New York Knicks recently, a couple years ago, got one of their favorite all-time players

03:58into the Hall of Fame.

04:01He didn't play for the Knicks very long, but Bernard King, number 30, is an NBA Hall of Famer.

04:06He is.

04:07Professional Basketball Hall of Famer.

04:08Yes.

04:09They've given his number out to anybody who wants it.

04:12So, Julius Randle got to wear Bernard King's number.

04:16All right?

04:16It's disrespectful.

04:17The number's never been retired.

04:19Mm-hmm.

04:19And the number will never go into the rafters.

04:23Now, Bernard King had a short career with the Knicks.

04:25He was my favorite, Nick, growing up.

04:27That's the decade of the 80s, obviously, when I really got into basketball.

04:31He's an explosive scorer.

04:32He is one of our greatest players of all time.

04:34He is.

04:34Again, short career, bad knee injuries.

04:36Had some personal demons as well that derailed his career.

04:39All right?

04:40But Bernard King is in the Hall of Fame, and his jersey is not in the rafters at Madison

04:48Square Garden, which tells you all you need to know.

04:51We're going to take home the trophy.

04:53We're going to enjoy it.

04:55We may even celebrate it a little bit, but we're not having a parade in the Canyon of Heroes,

05:00and we are not putting that banner up in the hallowed rafters of Madison Square Garden.

05:08Now, are you sure?

05:10Okay, let me ask you a question.

05:11Yeah.

05:11Okay?

05:12You're a diehard Sixers fan, correct?

05:13I am.

05:14When's the last time the Sixers won a championship?

05:171983.

05:181983.

05:19Long time.

05:19Moses Malone.

05:20Moses Malone.

05:21Mo Cheeks.

05:21Right.

05:22Dr. J.

05:23That's right.

05:23Faux, Faux, and Faux.

05:24Uh-huh.

05:25They actually did a Faux, Faux, and Faux, but we all understood what it meant.

05:28Faux, Faux, Faux.

05:29They did sweep the Lakers.

05:30All right?

05:31Faux, Faux, Faux, Faux, yeah.

05:31So, you haven't won one in 40-plus years.

05:35Yeah, but forever.

05:36If the Sixers ever got good again, and by the way, they're decent.

05:40Played better than I thought they would this year.

05:42Yeah, they're decent this year.

05:43All right?

05:43With a lot of injuries, of course.

05:44Mm-hmm.

05:44If the Sixers won the Emirates Cup, would you demand a banner be hung in the building

05:52or not?

05:53Absolutely not.

05:54Thank you very much.

05:54Because you've got to wait for a real championship if you're the Sixers.

05:58Which is why the Lakers are such frauds, hanging a banner because LeBron wanted to see a banner

06:03get hung.

06:04Now, listen.

06:05I'm going to let you cook on the LeBron thing.

06:06They're not the only ones that have it up.

06:08They're not the only ones, but that's all right.

06:10How did the Lakers hang a banner for the Emirates Cup next to actual banners?

06:13Like, Magic Johnson had to be like, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, that's the banner you're putting

06:18up there?

06:19It's bad enough they hung the COVID banner championship.

06:22Well, that's a championship.

06:23That's not a real championship either.

06:25It's a real championship.

06:26What are you going to do?

06:26They haven't held it.

06:27But I want to be clear.

06:28The New York Knicks are not going to sully that building.

06:32They're not going to sully the memory of 1973 and Willis Reed and Clyde Frazier and on

06:39and on and on.

06:40They ain't going to do it.

06:41Earl of Pearl?

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