00:00Never thought I would ever say this, but the New York Knickerbockers are the world champions.
00:0753 years it's taken for this moment.
00:11I never thought in my lifetime, as I said, I would ever see this.
00:15I was 10 years old the last time the New York Knicks won the NBA championship with the Willis Reed
00:21and Earl Monroe guys.
00:23That's the last time they were really relevant when it came to winning.
00:28I never thought I would ever say New York Knicks, NBA champion.
00:33I've never been behind once again showing you the resilience of this team.
00:37They went at 94-90 over the San Antonio Spurs in five games.
00:42In five games, they united an entire area, an entire region.
00:50It was incredible to watch.
00:52By the way, I'm not just talking about New York City.
00:55I'm talking Jersey.
00:56I'm talking Connecticut.
00:58I'm talking all these areas in the Northeast that you just follow this team.
01:05Every single thing that the NBA doesn't represent today was represented by this Knicks team, a team that wouldn't quit,
01:15a team that had great resilience,
01:18a team that would not allow the San Antonio Spurs to put them away, no matter what the obstacles were,
01:2529-point deficit, they end up coming back and winning.
01:29And the heart of that basketball team was clearly Jalen Brunson.
01:33I heard chants that reminded us of another legend in the history of New York sports, and that was Derrick
01:40Jeter.
01:41Jalen Brunson!
01:44Jalen Brunson!
01:47He's now become an icon in New York.
01:51LeBron, this is what you have searched your entire life for, wanting to be looked at in that light, wanting
01:59to be thought of in that light like that in a major city.
02:03LeBron James is not thought of is that guy in Los Angeles.
02:07He's thought of a carpetbagger.
02:10Jalen Brunson is now part of the fabric of New York, bringing home a championship, being in the names of
02:18the NamUs, the Tom Seavers, and the Derrick Jeters.
02:23What you saw just in five games, a basketball team that showed passion, heart, love of playing for a region,
02:34everything, wrapped up in five games.
02:37If you're not sitting around watching this and you're just thinking that this is a story about the Knicks, this
02:43is more of a story about sports.
02:46Every single thing and why we watch sports today was with what that team did.
02:52Hey, you know, we could say whatever you want about New York all the time and how New York's this
02:58and how New York's that.
03:00That basketball team kind of brought the entire region and the boroughs of New York City together.
03:05Upper East Side, Manhattan, it was incredible.
03:10One of the greatest runs I've ever seen in my entire life.
03:14Oh, and by the way, this is just a little note here for Victor Wem and Yamba.
03:19Hey, dude, you had great highs when you ended up knocking off OKC in the Western Conference Finals.
03:25Everything was hugs and kisses and kissing cheerleaders and cashing paychecks, right?
03:31Well, when you got beat and things didn't look good, you get in front of a microphone and you start
03:37whining like that, saying you're better.
03:40It's better than them.
03:41We're better than them.
03:42You know, it's funny you couldn't close them out.
03:44This was don't ever count us out.
03:48Those are the greatest teams and those are the most difficult teams to beat in sports.
03:52The teams you can't put away.
03:54The teams that refuse to let go of the rope, as Mike Tomlin would say.
03:59It was truly a great moment.
04:01Not just for New York City, for the entire region, as we said.
04:05The ticker tape parade in the Canyon of Heroes is going to be 2 million plus.
04:11And you're going to see people there, like you saw maybe down in Broad Street, when the Eagles won the
04:19World Championship and won the Super Bowl.
04:22Generations have been waiting for this.
04:25I'm still pinching myself, saying the New York Knickerbockers are the NBA champions.
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