#377: The Thunder-Spurs chess match! Knicks back in Finals
Thinking Basketball
Thinking Basketball
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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What caused Wemby to have such a poor Game 5? We discuss the incredible back and forth chess match, Oklahoma City’s latest adjustments and more in this classic series, plus New York makes NBA Finals and Ben stays at a Holiday Inn. Support at www.patreon.com/thinkingbasketball and SportsBusinessClassroom.com Code THINKINGBASKETBALL for $300 off.
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| 0:00.0 | Thinking Basketball podcast. |
| 0:08.9 | My name is Ben. |
| 0:09.8 | Welcome back. |
| 0:11.1 | And we are recording on a Wednesday, |
| 0:13.2 | normally record on a Tuesday. |
| 0:15.3 | But what we had to do was we had to actually wait to see what happened in game five. |
| 0:19.3 | We're going to record. |
| 0:20.0 | And then we were like, wait, game five is about to happen of the Western Conference Finals, which is the best series of |
| 0:26.7 | the 2020s, probably, easily one of the best series of the 2020s. I think as of recording right now, |
| 0:32.9 | the Thunder are up three games to two. We're going to talk about that. At some point, |
| 0:36.4 | we're going to acknowledge that the Knicks have won 26 straight playoff games by an average margin of victory. |
| 0:41.7 | Actually, the Knicks who have won, what is it, Cody, 11 straight playoff games to make their |
| 0:47.5 | first NBA finals of the, forget the 2020s of the 21st century, first time since 1999 when they had the Latrells, |
| 0:55.2 | pretty well, Alan Houston, Marcus can be run to the finals before they lost to the, wait, |
| 1:00.2 | is this in my notes? |
| 1:01.3 | The Spurs. |
| 1:01.8 | They played the Spurs in the finals and lost in five games. |
| 1:04.9 | So we will acknowledge that at some point, but in all seriousness about the Knicks, after 11 |
| 1:09.7 | playoff games, they have the largest |
| 1:12.1 | margin of victory, I believe, of any other team ever after 11. It doesn't make sense. They |
| 1:18.3 | played more than 11 playoff games. Something is very impressive there for New York. Either way, |
| 1:23.6 | we'll get to that. We're going to talk about the Western Conference finals. Where would you like |
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