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Boomer & Gio

A Historic Knicks Team

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

Sports, News

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The Knicks are already more historically relevant than the Melo Knicks. Gio said this is the third most important era of Knicks and can leapfrog the 90’s Knicks by winning a championship.

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0:00.0

The next three years of Joel Embed, his cap hit.

0:04.3

And this is a man who was dealing with appendicitis, dealing with knees and hips and everything.

0:09.3

And he's 30, he'll be 32 years old.

0:12.2

Next year, he looks like he's about 52 years old out there.

0:15.6

With 26, 27, 57.9.

0:19.1

27, 28, 62.6. Then a player option in 28, 29 for 67.2 for a guy that looks like he can't make it through a full season ever again.

0:31.4

Yeah, I don't see him going anywhere because I don't think anybody's going to want him unless Philadelphia picks up all that salary.

0:36.6

But, you know,

0:37.9

he looks like he's beaten down and he's broken down and he's always got something, whether it

0:43.0

be the hip, whether it be the knees, it was the appendicitis, which is really unfortunate for him

0:47.0

because I think maybe that played into all of this, whether he was in shape or not. That's the thing.

0:53.3

Yeah. When he comes back and you've got to play play playoff basketball at that intensity

0:57.0

and you're coming off an appendicitis at the wrong time,

1:00.9

I don't think he was really in shape and he looks slow.

1:03.6

And when you're slow and you're out of shape and you're playing in the NBA playoffs,

1:08.1

it's going to show itself pretty regularly.

1:12.2

And I think in that case it has.

1:14.8

Yeah, so think about where the Knicks are with their salaries and all of this and how it's

1:19.1

working right now and how Jalen Brunson left money on the table, the last contract extension.

1:25.6

And when he comes up for a supermax, the numbers are

1:29.8

absolutely astronomical. And he was quoted in an article where he was interviewed not that

1:35.9

long ago with, yeah, you know, he left some money on the table. And next time around, you know,

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