00:00Could we have a preview tonight in the garden when OKC comes to town
00:04to take on the New York Knicks tonight?
00:06Graphics shows the Knicks are actually the underdogs
00:09at plus four and a half and a total of 221 and a half.
00:12OKC did play last night, rested some players.
00:15Come on, man.
00:15Give us the breakdown, Kev.
00:17What's going on in the garden tonight?
00:18Yeah, so this is an interesting spot because, I don't know,
00:21it feels like 90% of handicapping the NBA right now is anyone on a back-to-back.
00:27And both of these teams are.
00:29But Oklahoma City is a little different.
00:32Sometimes, and I do think it's smart when a team accepts that guys can't play on back-to-backs
00:38instead of being blindsided by it.
00:40They rested Shea yesterday against Chicago.
00:43They rested Isaiah Hartenstein, who used to be a Knicks.
00:47So it matters to him to go out there and play against this team.
00:50They know they can beat the Bulls with 25 minutes from Chet Holmgren
00:53and Kayson Wallace running around.
00:55Right, guys?
00:55So they have set themselves up here quite nicely to have SGA available for 32 to 35 minutes,
01:04right, depending on what's needed in this basketball game.
01:08You'll notice the injury reports say these guys are GTDs,
01:12and yet the sportsbook, they're posting full props.
01:15They completely anticipate these guys being out there and available.
01:20The Knicks last season could not beat the best teams in the league,
01:24and that was a lot to be made about how it related to Boston,
01:26but it also translated to the Western Conference,
01:29and it translated to their games against the Thunder.
01:32Each of them were double-digit losses, including losing to OKC by 25 points in this building.
01:38The Knicks had one of their better results in a while,
01:41which was that home blowout of San Antonio.
01:44If this Knicks team is going to do anything, it should be to protect Madison Square Garden.
01:50So four and a half looks like a lot to me.
01:53I could only take those points with the Knicks,
01:55but I think the Shea props here are the most tempting
01:59because he is well-rested for this game.
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