00:00The Knicks got some bad news yesterday, and that is something that none of us knew about.
00:04Game four of Knicks Cavs, in the second quarter of that game,
00:08Mitchell Robinson, the very talented rebounder and backup big man for the Knicks behind Carl Anthony Towns,
00:14apparently broke his pinky.
00:15And now we've gone back, we've seen video, and the video is actually him holding his left hand when the
00:21right pinky's broken.
00:23They decided to have surgery on that pinky yesterday, and of course he is going to play.
00:28Of course he's going to play.
00:30He's going to play because he's a man, because he's a Knick.
00:34And you don't need your pinky to block shots.
00:37You don't need your pinky to get rebounds.
00:40He doesn't shoot the ball anyway.
00:41You don't need your pinky to dunk on an alley-oop off a pick and roll.
00:46And I like the fact that Mitchell Robinson is once again showing the world that New York athletes are tough.
00:52Like if this were, let me think of a good comparison.
00:56Oh, great.
00:57Yeah.
00:58If this were a 76er, he'd be out for a month and a half.
01:01If this were Joel Embiid, he would tell that the vaginosis he was suffering would keep him out until next
01:07February.
01:08So once again, New York proves that we're also the toughest cities.
01:12Our players play through pain, and he is going to play with a broken pinky on Wednesday night,
01:19game one of the NBA Finals against the Thunder or the Spurs.
01:22So once again, while everybody else yesterday was like, oh, no, he's got a broken pinky, timetable for return, unknown.
01:32And then it was, oh, my gosh, he's going to have surgery, timetable for return, unknown.
01:38I sat back like a G, and I said, he's going to play.
01:45He's going to play.
01:47If there's any thought process at all that Mitchell Robinson's not going to play, then go back up on the
01:54porch, buy yourself a dog, and let the men handle their business.
01:58Mitchell Robinson is a man, and men play through pain and broken pinkies.
02:04It's simple.
02:05You pull the pinky, you set it, you tape it to your ring finger, and you play basketball.
02:12And if you don't think he can, guess what?
02:14He played the third quarter with it.
02:16He played the fourth quarter with it.
02:18And there's no more pain than when you first break it.
02:21Mitchell Robinson, once again, has an S on his chest, and the New York Knicks are going to be just
02:28fine with all nine of his good fingers.
02:31You know what?
02:32This is ridiculous.
02:33You're acting like the man deserves some sort of medal of freedom or something.
02:37He doesn't deserve a damn game.
02:38This is not coming back from Nam.
02:40No, it's not.
02:40And how about he actually play effectively before you say this?
02:44Because while you're right about his limited game and the things he can't, they don't ask him to do much,
02:49but Cat gets in foul trouble a lot.
02:51So it's something to watch there.
02:53If Cat was, especially if it's the Spurs and the primary is Wimby, it's going to be interesting to see.
02:59Not so much can he do his little pick and roll stuff.
03:02It's going to be how much contact he can do on that hand.
03:05Because after the surgery and that pin or whatever they put into it, it is going to hurt him.
03:10So yes, he's going to play.
03:11You've got to see if he's going to play well.
03:13There's a pain medicine called Toradol.
03:15It's very big in the NFL, actually.
03:17Yeah, but it doesn't last the whole game.
03:19You're only allowed to do that one time.
03:20No, no.
03:21You do as often as you want.
03:23No, you can't.
03:23They don't allow it anymore.
03:24So what you do is this.
03:25They don't do football or the lugs.
03:27I have some experience with this in the mean streets of the Jewish community centers
03:32where I played ball back in the Tel Aviv days.
03:36You might even see how crooked my pinky is right there.
03:39No.
03:39Let me show you over here.
03:40You see how crooked that pinky is?
03:42That's good because I do man's work.
03:44That's man's work right there.
03:45So you tape these two fingers together.
03:48You put a shot of Toradol right there at the base of it, and you feel no pain at all.
03:53Zero.
03:54Mitchell Robinson is a man's man.
03:56Mitchell Robinson grew up tough.
03:58Mitchell Robinson's family was not around.
04:01Basically grew up on the streets of the South.
04:04And Mitchell Robinson is not going to let the most needless finger we have stop him in his quest
04:10to lead the NBA Finals in rebounds and putbacks and alley-oop dunks.
04:15And he, my friends, might very well be kind of like the year where, what's his name?
04:20Former Sixer, won the MVP.
04:23Andre Iguodala?
04:24Yeah.
04:24He's going to be shades of Andre Iguodala, where the guy you least think has a chance to be the
04:30MVP of the Finals.
04:31Mitchell Robinson is going to be the first nine-finger award winner of a Finals MVP trophy.
04:37Come get some, and I'm going to be so obnoxious when it happens.
04:42Andre Iguodala should give that award to Curry.
04:45It's the worst award ever.
04:46LeBron averaged 40 points on him in that Finals, and they go, well, Iguodala did a great job.
04:51That's the most pathetic award ever.
04:52And obviously, if the Knicks are to win, the Finals MVP will be Brunson, OG, or Cat.
04:58It will not be some damn Mitchell Robinson.
05:00You'd be surprised.
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