00:00You spent 23 seasons covering the Knicks mostly during years when the championship felt I would
00:06say impossible. So when that final buzzer sounded in San Antonio did the former beat reporter in
00:11you react first or did you simply get to experience it as somebody who had become
00:15emotionally invested in this franchise now that you no longer covered the team? Yeah I will say
00:20my beat writing instincts kicked in and I was again in the final couple of minutes when it
00:25looked like they were going to hang on I was like shaking thinking like oh my god imagine if I
00:31was
00:31behind the computer having to write this up what I'd be feeling and you know I really you know thought
00:37about the current beat writers and Bonds and Popper, Ian Begley. Yeah it was just a lot of emotion for
00:44me
00:44because 23 seasons and I'm thinking about all the players and coaches I had covered. I think I
00:51covered a dozen or 13 coaches a few hundred players I mean guys I was thinking about guys like
00:59LeVar Postel, Earl Baron, Ron Baker, Ricky Lede, all these guys I've written all these stories about
01:06and here they are you know two minutes away or a minute away from the championship breaking the curse
01:13it was very emotional for me.
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