00:10Welcome to New York Gun Game.
00:14All right, Dexter Henry here with my guy, the legend, John Starks.
00:18John, the last time I saw you, I don't know if you remember, that was game four.
00:22Before game four.
00:23We hadn't even seen game four.
00:25Then you were in the building for game four.
00:27Can you take me back to that night?
00:29How memorable it was?
00:30We didn't even know what that was going to be, but how memorable was that for you?
00:33Nobody didn't know what that memory was going to be.
00:35It was special.
00:38To watch how the game unfold, you know, especially after the first half.
00:43We didn't play well and got down to a young, energetic San Antonio Spurs team.
00:49And to watch these guys come out the locker room with an auto mission,
00:54you could kind of see it in their face that they was like embarrassed
00:57by the way they played in the first half.
00:59And, you know, and you watch the young Spurs team thinking that the game was over with
01:05and probably did them in, you know what I mean?
01:07Because they stopped with their energy and started playing not good basketball.
01:14And we took advantage of that.
01:15Jalen especially took advantage of that.
01:18And to be able to come down to the end of the game and watch Jalen shoot the ball
01:24from our vantage point on the other end, I was like, ooh, that looks good.
01:29It hit the front of the rim.
01:30I'm like, oh, the Hickam OG, the hand of God come out of there and tip it in.
01:36And it was just like exuberation throughout the arena.
01:39And so it was incredible.
01:41I think I told you the last time we talked, I got so much joy watching you guys,
01:45the alumni, just watching.
01:46And you said about how special it was.
01:48And you talked to me about how you were thinking about what it would be like if they want.
01:52Well, they want.
01:53They did it all.
01:54And they got to the mountaintop and you were at the parade.
01:57So what has this summer been like for you as somebody who's still around the team,
02:00works with the team, and just enjoying all of it?
02:02No, it's been crazy.
02:03It's been a fun-filled summer, a very busy summer, a short summer, but it's been crazy.
02:11I can imagine what those guys was going through because I had my schedule filled
02:15throughout the summer.
02:16And so, but, yeah, I would just imagine that once it happened,
02:20especially in game number five, that everything was just going to be what I thought it was.
02:25And the excitement that the city showed and the love that the city showed
02:30throughout the whole playoffs, on the road, I was talking to some of the guys.
02:35They said they felt like it was a playoff game.
02:38I mean, excuse me, a home game.
02:39Home game.
02:40Every road game.
02:41Yeah.
02:41And I think that's what really propelled them to do what they did last year.
02:45How are you feeling about this year?
02:47That's what everybody wants to know.
02:48Can you go back-to-back?
02:49It's such a hard thing to do.
02:50Yeah.
02:51How are you feeling about this team and their ability to go back-to-back?
02:52You're the 100 now.
02:53Yeah.
02:54And everybody's going to be throwing their best at you.
02:56And so you have to be ready to come out and hit first.
03:00As Coach Riley used to say.
03:02And I think eventually, you know, things will get going.
03:07You know, right now, the guys is probably a little tired right now.
03:10Everybody looking at the preseason.
03:12I got fans coming up to me, man, they 0-3 in the preseason.
03:15I'm like, settle down.
03:16It's the preseason.
03:17So, yeah.
03:19So, I'm excited.
03:20I know they're excited.
03:21Just talking to some of the players.
03:22They're excited about the challenge that they're going to have to go back and repeat.
03:27We're just a couple days away from opening night.
03:29I know I'll see you there.
03:30I know you're going to be in the building.
03:31What do you think it's going to be like for you to see that banner go up?
03:34Oh, man.
03:36It's just going to be a proud moment.
03:38Proud moment for the city of New York, for the fan base, for those guys that went out there and
03:43got it done,
03:44for the alumni that was there to support them, for the whole organization.
03:48I think it's just going to be an incredible moment just to watch that banner raise into that ceiling and
03:57to be up there with the 1973 championship and the 1970 championship team.
04:03It's just going to be amazing.
04:05Two more for you.
04:06Who's the player that you really got your eye on this year that you think could level up for this
04:10next team?
04:10I think Drummond.
04:11You know, he got a hold of the field.
04:14Obviously, we lost Mitch.
04:15So, I think Andre still have a lot left in the tank.
04:19I think he's excited to play for the Knicks.
04:23I know this was his favorite team growing up.
04:26And he looks great, you know, during preseason.
04:29So, I'm excited to see what he does.
04:31And lastly, we're here at the Earl Monroe New Renaissance High School.
04:35We were here a couple years ago when they were doing the groundbreaking.
04:37And I remember we were talking about it, what's it like to see this now with everybody here and what
04:41Earl has done for the community here in the Bronx?
04:43Yeah, just to see this come into fruition.
04:45Like you said, we were here a couple of years ago.
04:47And not knowing, you know, how this is going to transform this community.
04:53I think he's done an incredible job just looking at the faces of these young folks and them smiling, having
05:00a lot of fun.
05:02The excitement, how proud they are that they're in a building like this.
05:05And to be able to come here and learn.
05:08And Earl is an incredible human being because, you know, he's using his fame and what he accomplished throughout his
05:17life.
05:17And the man that he is, he's using it for good.
05:21And it's showing you what good transformed into.
05:24And so I can't be more proud of just to be here and support him along with some of my
05:31Knicks fellow alumni.
05:35And so this is an exciting moment for the Bronx, knowing that you have an incredible school like this right
05:42here in the center of the Bronx.
05:43How's that about it?
05:44Predicting the Knicks to go back-to-back?
05:45Yes, I do.
05:46There you go.
05:46Knicks in five.
05:47You heard it from John Starks.
05:48Predicting to go back-to-back.
05:49Dexter Henry, John Starks, signing off.
05:52And thanks for watching New York Cup Game.
05:55Boop shakalaka.
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