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The Sports Junkies recap New York’s NBA Finals win over San Antonio.
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00:00Take the series in five games.
00:03Jalen Brunson with a masterpiece in the clinch of 45 points.
00:08That's incredible.
00:09In the win.
00:10Incredible.
00:10It was just unstoppable.
00:11So take your hat off to the Spurs.
00:13They take to the Knicks.
00:14They take down the Spurs.
00:16And, I mean, Jalen Brunson is just, he's a legendary Knick.
00:20What I was talking about.
00:21He just might be the greatest Knick of all time.
00:23He's a Hall of Famer.
00:24He sealed his Hall of Fame bid.
00:25He's in that conversation at this point.
00:27And they were debating whether or not he's the greatest Knick of all time.
00:30I mean, it's crazy.
00:33Unbelievable.
00:34I mean, since he won a ring, he's got to be top three.
00:36I mean, he's certainly in that convo.
00:39I mean, their resilience, though, as a team is just remarkable.
00:42I mean, because that is a good Spurs team.
00:44It seemed like they had a friggin' 15-point or more lead every friggin' game.
00:50And it just didn't matter.
00:51Come crunch time.
00:53You know, if you notice.
00:54I wasn't surprised, by the way.
00:55You may or may not believe that.
00:57But I wasn't surprised at all that the Knicks came back.
01:00Well, it's the way the games were being played.
01:02Well, that's what I mean.
01:02Just based on how the Spurs had played.
01:04They just don't know how to close out teams.
01:06Well, they didn't know how to close out the Knicks.
01:07Yeah, and I just think.
01:08They didn't win a game on their court.
01:10That's ridiculous.
01:11I did think early on, though, that the Spurs, they were pressing out defensively.
01:15Right?
01:16They were just pressuring everything as far out from the rim as possible.
01:20And I just thought, wow, that's a good strategy.
01:23But I guess it just.
01:25I don't know.
01:26They wore him down.
01:27I don't know what it was.
01:29I mean, Brunson was getting into the lane, getting to the rim whenever he wanted.
01:32In the second half.
01:33Yeah.
01:34Yeah.
01:35I just.
01:36And they fouled him a billion times.
01:38Yeah.
01:38I mean, for them to win a game where Carl Anthony Towns has two points.
01:42On one for seven.
01:43I don't know.
01:43The guy's in foul trouble.
01:44How do you lose to that?
01:46I mean.
01:46He wasn't even on the court for a whole quarter.
01:47Their next highest scorer had 14 points.
01:50No, he put the team on his back.
01:52That's what he did.
01:53He put the team on his back.
01:55Yep.
01:55It was just an incredible performance.
01:58Yeah.
01:58That was Jordan in game.
02:00I don't know if it was game six against the Jazz.
02:03Uh-huh.
02:04When he had 47 or 45.
02:07Yeah.
02:08But let's.
02:09I mean, look.
02:10Castle and Fox were just.
02:11They just.
02:12They were bad.
02:14Um.
02:14They were four for 25.
02:16Fox really struggled in this series.
02:19Yep.
02:19He did.
02:19And.
02:20I know they're trying to figure out ways.
02:22If they can get out of that contract.
02:23That's going to be almost impossible.
02:25I don't know how they're going to do that.
02:27Mm-hmm.
02:27It was infuriating to watch.
02:29Yeah.
02:30Yeah.
02:30It was.
02:30Not that I was rooting against the Knicks.
02:31I just wanted to see a good series.
02:33But.
02:34You could see them.
02:35Go into a full-blown panic.
02:37And lock up.
02:38And they ran no offense once again.
02:40In the final eight minutes of that.
02:41Of the game.
02:43Literally.
02:43Like not one play.
02:44There was nothing going on.
02:45No attacking the rim.
02:46Again.
02:47Everyone's panicked.
02:48Nobody wanted to do anything.
02:50Wemby wanted nothing to do with it.
02:52They took five shots.
02:53Fox taking those.
02:55Just horrible.
02:5619 footers.
02:57Over and over and over again.
02:59That was kind of a specialty.
02:59That was breaking off the back.
03:00Yep.
03:01I mean.
03:01You could tell.
03:02As soon as.
03:03As soon as the Knicks started getting close.
03:05It was over.
03:06The last two minutes was awful to watch.
03:08No one wanted to win.
03:09Yeah.
03:09I mean.
03:10So many missed free throws.
03:11Oh yeah.
03:11I've never seen so many missed free throws.
03:14I don't know.
03:15Well.
03:16Especially.
03:16Like Wemby.
03:17Wemby is a good shooter.
03:17I don't know how he misses all of these free throws.
03:20He did it in game.
03:21Game four.
03:22He just locked up.
03:23It's pressure.
03:24No.
03:24He's exhausted.
03:25He's out of shape.
03:25He's exhausted.
03:26Yeah.
03:26I don't.
03:26Yeah.
03:27I don't understand how he gets so tired.
03:29I mean.
03:29They took him out.
03:30They took him out.
03:31In one of the most crucial stretches of the game.
03:33They don't call their timeouts.
03:34Because they're trying to preserve him for exact spots to give Wemby rest.
03:38Yeah.
03:38It's a problem.
03:39It's a real problem.
03:40He was exhausted.
03:41And he's not in shape.
03:42And he's got to hit a lot tougher.
03:43He's good.
03:44He's not.
03:44He definitely choked.
03:45I might be in better shape than Wemby.
03:48Well, he definitely, I think, solidified himself sort of as a villain.
03:53Certainly, the way he handled himself, I think, in the press conference afterwards.
03:57I mean, I don't know.
03:59I don't know, man.
04:01Well, Harper should have been starting pretty much the entire series.
04:06Yeah.
04:06Over Fox.
04:07Yeah.
04:08I didn't understand that.
04:10I don't understand how Fox is getting almost 40 minutes when he was hurting the team.
04:14I will say, it is fun to root against Wemby, though.
04:18Like, he's very good.
04:19But it is fun to root against them.
04:20He's very good.
04:21No doubt.
04:21Yeah.
04:21I mean, he could do freaky things.
04:23He is a fun villain.
04:25Yeah.
04:27But I was just happy for the Knicks, to be honest with you.
04:30Just happy for the Knicks.
04:32I don't understand.
04:33You know, again, we always talk about it.
04:34I don't understand why people burn down cities and whatever they do.
04:38Burn buses.
04:39That's crazy.
04:40It's just the nonsense.
04:41Because they're just knuckleheads.
04:43I know, but it's so rampant.
04:45It's not like it's just isolated.
04:46I think they feel like it gives them an excuse to just manifest that sort of behavior.
04:51They're waiting for some sort of cover for it.
04:54Who's wired that way?
04:55You've got to be a real weirdo.
04:57Weird, violent?
04:58They're violent.
04:59Yeah.
04:59They're stabbing people.
05:01Yeah.
05:01It's just crazy.
05:02I mean, come on.
05:03I don't understand it.
05:03There's so many people in that city you're going to have, even if it's a small percentage,
05:07you're going to have idiots like that.
05:09I mean, my daughter was out with everybody, you know, celebrating, you know, watching
05:12the game.
05:13You know how they had places where they were guys in their condos or they were projecting
05:18it out onto other buildings.
05:20Right.
05:20And Meg was there and enjoying it.
05:21But they made a point of leaving before the game ended because they knew it was going to
05:25be chaos.
05:27Yeah.
05:27They made a point of leaving, like, I don't know, end of third quarter or something
05:30to get the hell out of Dodge.
05:32Right.
05:32Well, that was smart.
05:33But yeah, yeah, it just kind of mars it, you know, my daughter was invited over to
05:41the city on Saturday night and she, I didn't, I didn't know she was invited and she just
05:47said, there's no, dad, there's no way I'm going over there.
05:50So she just stayed in her apartment in Hoboken and I said, you know what?
05:56Good decision.
05:57Smart move.
05:57Great decision.
05:58That's an adult grown up decision right there.
06:00And I mean, she's not a huge basketball fan, but she, you know, she, she was interested
06:03to be at the scene.
06:04Yeah.
06:04I want to be there.
06:05But she said, it's not even worth it.
06:06Yeah.
06:07I said, you're right.
06:08Yeah.
06:09But the Knicks were, I mean, you could, you could see it.
06:14You could see it playing out after, you know, they cut it to five and then they cut it
06:17to three.
06:19Tied it up.
06:20Spurs taking bad shots.
06:23Harper's fouling Brunson every time down.
06:26They're missing free, key free throws in big moments.
06:29It's, it was just a younger team that couldn't beat the older team that was ready to win
06:33it.
06:33I mean, how on Brunson was unbelievable.
06:36How under did that game go?
06:37They scored very 184 points.
06:40I mean, I mean, 25, 30 points.
06:43You took the under your big fat one, but the Knicks, you know, that's, that's just impressive
06:49that you can go on the road to the, to San Antonio where they were nearly unbeatable in
06:54the regular season in the playoffs.
06:56You know, I kept thinking about JP the entire game because, because he kept saying, he kept
07:02saying the Spurs are the better team.
07:04They're the better roster.
07:05Yeah.
07:05Like he kept saying it over and over all week.
07:08And I go, okay, well, you know, it's, it's three, one.
07:11I mean, at the end of the day, they won a series for one.
07:14Like they, obviously they're not better.
07:17No, they weren't.
07:18Like if it's a, if it's NFL playoffs or the NCAA tournament where it's a one-off and I think
07:23he just, and someone can, someone can get lucky and luck box their way.
07:26He gets caught up in the numbers and he just doesn't realize the greatness of Jalen Brunson.
07:33Or just, or just a better team.
07:35He's just going to carry his team to victory.
07:36Like he can, you can have all the talent in the world, but if your team's better.
07:39Yeah.
07:39I don't know.
07:40The Spurs were dominated almost every minute of those games.
07:43I mean, that's why it was a 75% that the Spurs led the series.
07:48Something like that.
07:49It was definitely over 70%.
07:50Yeah.
07:50And they lost in five games.
07:51That's why JP was saying that.
07:53And I kind of agreed with him that maybe they were the better roster player for player.
07:56Well, also the way they were in the regular season.
07:57But they're not a better team.
07:59They don't play good team basketball when it counts.
08:02Right.
08:03They play individual basketball.
08:04You can't say they're a better team when you lose 4-1 in a series.
08:07No, they're not.
08:08They weren't.
08:08If it's a one-off game, okay, I can see.
08:10Yeah.
08:11Well, especially, Matt, when you don't win a game on your home court.
08:15I get it.
08:16I mean, come on.
08:17I get it.
08:17But it's not like at no point did the Knicks look like the better team each game.
08:24Like, the Spurs were in control of every single game.
08:27Double-digit leads every single game.
08:29And they, I almost said the word, they S-ed their pants.
08:32Yeah, they didn't close out.
08:33Of every single game.
08:34They're not closers.
08:34They're not closers.
08:35They're just not closers.
08:36Honestly, I'd fire Mitch.
08:38Right.
08:38He can't.
08:39I can't ever go back to him.
08:41He might go.
08:41He's completely lost the plot.
08:43That was one of my biggest concerns.
08:45It's just horrible coaching.
08:46By the way, Wemby, get a rebound.
08:48It's the biggest rebound of your career.
08:50You let Mitchell Robinson mug you.
08:55And then they call a foul on Anobi right there.
08:58Yep.
08:59And that was another bad decision.
09:00They should have let it play out.
09:01Down three.
09:02Yeah, that's true.
09:03I thought the same thing.
09:05Back to 14 seconds.
09:06It was all bad coaching.
09:07So much bad coaching.
09:09Do you remember when we did the event with LeBron, right?
09:12It was a long time ago.
09:14Yeah, sure.
09:14I remember.
09:15And you remember Coach Thompson was there.
09:16Kevin Durant was there.
09:18We were on stage.
09:19We were hosting the event.
09:20Yeah.
09:21You know who else was there?
09:22And I had an interaction with him at the end.
09:24And I've always liked him ever since.
09:26Mike Brown was there.
09:27I don't recall him being there.
09:29Mike Brown was there.
09:29Was he?
09:29And he was like the world's nicest guy.
09:32Really?
09:33The world's nicest guy.
09:34He seems like it.
09:35Yeah, and just totally likable.
09:39And I think he did a hell of a job.
09:41So I'm really happy for him.
09:45I will say that was a very physical series.
09:47I mean, they could have called a lot more fouls than they did.
09:50Yeah, yep.
09:50I agree with that.
09:51But the fact that the Spurs weren't being aggressive, especially in the fourth quarter,
09:57of trying to get to the line, because the Knicks were.
10:02And the refs were calling all kinds of fouls on the Spurs.
10:04But if the Spurs were trying to get to the line, they would have gotten calls.
10:09And they didn't.
10:10They just settled.
10:12It was just frustrating to watch.
10:13It's a bad game plan.
10:14It was frustrating to watch.
10:15Well, really, the difference was just getting to the free throw line, because they basically
10:19shot the same.
10:20Both teams basically shot the same.
10:21Yeah, I mean.
10:22From threes and from the field.
10:23But Brunson was incredible.
10:25Yeah.
10:25What he could do, the way he uses his body to just get open.
10:28He's an unbelievable.
10:29The bumps.
10:30He's also an unbelievable ball handler.
10:32Yeah.
10:32I mean.
10:33He's sick at ball handling.
10:34He's unbelievable.
10:35And there's also something to the fact that he led his high school team to a title, his college
10:38team to a title, and now his pro team to a title.
10:41Yeah.
10:41He's just wired to win.
10:43And, like, he's just genetically predisposed to lead his team to victories.
10:48He deserved it.
10:48To have that guy on your side, and he goes for 45 in the clinching game.
10:52Right.
10:53I mean, that dude is going to get a massive pay raise when his contract is up.
10:59And, by the way, he took a discount.
11:01He took a discount to help the team with their flexibility.
11:04Yep.
11:05Does it give Wizards fans hope?
11:08The fact that the Knicks had gone 53 years, had been a laughing stock.
11:12Now, they've had their moments, right, when Ewing was there and they would get to finals
11:15or whatever.
11:16They certainly had their moments.
11:17But they've also been at the bottom.
11:19Does it give Wizards fans hope that there can be light at the end of the tunnel?
11:25I mean, if they can break their 50, was it a 53-year drought?
11:28Yeah.
11:29A plus-year drought, then, yeah, the Wizards could do the same thing.
11:31I think we're on a 48-year.
11:33They're on a 53.
11:34Yeah.
11:35It's a long time.
11:36It can be done.
11:37It is a long time.
11:38You can break through.
11:39It can be done if you get the right pieces.
11:43And they weren't all drafted.
11:45By the way, any money that Jalen Brunson left on the table in that negotiation to help
11:50out the team, he's going to triple it in endorsements and his profile in New York for
11:58the rest of his life.
11:59He's a hero.
12:01A legend for life.
12:02Yeah, he's going to go down in the annals.
12:04Especially the way he played in that clincher.
12:07He's a legend for life.
12:08Not going to pay for a drink.
12:09Not going to pay for a meal.
12:10Not going to pay for a haircut.
12:12That guy's not paying for anything.
12:13Nope.
12:15Unbelievable.
12:15To do it, on the biggest stage, pretty incredible cakes.
12:20Your guys, Vinny and Joe, beside themselves, celebrating.
12:24They're not the hugest NBA guys, but they were certainly rooting for the next.
12:27Sure.
12:28No doubt about it.
12:31By the way, even if they, I know they burned down the school buses after the win.
12:37They probably would have burned them down after a loss.
12:39I mean, it was probably either or.
12:41That's the thing.
12:41I just don't understand the mentality.
12:43I really don't.
12:45All right.
12:45Let's go real quick.
12:46Let's go to Richard in Baltimore.
12:49Let's see if the phones are working this morning.
12:50Richard, what's up, buddy?
12:52Y'all one of the junkies.
12:53How are you?
12:54I'm sitting here looking at listening to you guys, and you're making some good points.
12:57But I believe the Spurs are the better team.
13:00They're just so young and inexperienced.
13:01And experience won that game.
13:03It wasn't the better team.
13:04The better team is the Spurs, but they just don't have the experience.
13:08Well, I don't know.
13:09I mean, I guess you could die on that mountain.
13:11They were the better team in the regular season, and they certainly took commanding leads in virtually every game.
13:16I mean, you've got to play 48 minutes.
13:17You've got to be able to close it out.
13:18And I do think coaching was a big factor.
13:21It's the experience.
13:22They have no experience.
13:24They're young, no experience.
13:25They're the better team.
13:27They play.
13:27They just don't have the experience.
13:29Well, let's see.
13:30Let's see what happens in the next couple years.
13:32If that's true, they should be back.
13:35They're going to be the team to beat.
13:36They're going to be the team to beat.
13:38I guarantee you.
13:39But, look, I enjoy you guys' program.
13:41It's an excellent program.
13:42Thank you, man.
13:43I appreciate that.
13:44Yeah, I'm locked in today.
13:45I mean, I can't believe that I didn't lock in you guys earlier.
13:49I've been watching something else.
13:50I've been watching the other program, but this is a good program.
13:55Well, we're glad you finally found us.
13:57Thank you for stumbling upon us.
13:58Thank you, Richard.
13:58Appreciate you, buddy.
13:59Thank you, pal.
14:00Yes, sir.
14:00All right.
14:01Y'all have a great day, man.
14:02All right.
14:02You too, buddy.
14:03All right.
14:06Look, you can make the argument.
14:07It's just trivial.
14:08It's kind of a sports radio argument.
14:10But at the end of the day, they're the champs' cakes.
14:12They are.
14:12And what is it now?
14:13Is it like the ninth different team in the league to win?
14:16Like, no repeats in a while?
14:18It's been a while.
14:18I don't know.
14:19It's been a while.
14:19Yeah.
14:20Also, I don't like that you just assume that the Spurs are just going to be there again.
14:23Well, I'm not assuming.
14:25I know, but I'm just saying people.
14:26If they are as good as you say, as people say, then they should be back.
14:31Right?
14:31If they are really the best.
14:33I never assume the teams just are always going to keep coming back to the finals.
14:36I don't either.
14:37It's hard to get to the NBA finals or the Stanley Cup final.
14:40It's not a guarantee you're always going to get back there.
14:43It's not.
14:44It's not.
14:44They've got a good young roster, but there's no guarantee.
14:47I think they'll have their runs.
14:48They'll have some moments.
14:50But we'll see.
14:51We'll see.
14:52I don't think it's Victor's only time in the finals.
14:56He's too dominant of a player.
14:58I'm not claiming they're the better team.
15:00I don't know.
15:01I mean, the Knicks won pretty handily when it's all said and done.
15:03But they've got to be one of the top three favorites to win it next year.
15:07I would think they'd be in the mix.
15:08I mean, I've got to think it's OKC, San Antonio, and maybe the Knicks.
15:10Well, then they do have a De'Aaron Fox problem.
15:13There's no doubt about that.
15:14Yeah, they've got to figure something out there.
15:15Well, they may be putting him on the trade block.
15:17Who's going to want it, though?
15:18He's got all those years and a lot of money on his deal.
15:22Well, you know what?
15:22He should not be a starter.
15:24Harper should be a starter.
15:25Right.
15:26Can you have a $50 million player on the bench?
15:29It's going to be tough.
15:29You've got to have the better player on the court, especially in key minutes.
15:33All right, if you want to weigh in on the NBA finals, you're welcome to do that.
15:35800-636-1067 is the number.
15:39We're the junks.
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