Christmas Day at the Garden Noont Tip, a tradition unlike any other.

Knicks and the Cavs.

Cleveland just walloping the Knicks right out of the gate. It was 18 to 3 to start the game. They led by 15 after the first. Nick surged back. They actually had the lead at half. Then fell behind by 17 in the fourth quarter again. All looked lost. But then here came Jalen Brunson in the second unit, got it back to a one possession game, and then the barrage started.

I think he understands the feel of the game, the momentum was switching. He had to do something to get it back.

Brunsson, you bet.

Tie game.

As Ruko and Doris Burke, the ABC call, that tied it with 3.48 to go.

Fast forward to just over a minute left.

They're going back and forth. Caves up by two. Here comes the captain yet again to give him the lead. There's the speed of Garland. 20 points, 10 assists for Garland. Brunson to pull up. You bet! And Brunson finishes with... It's funny. I was going to say, I feel like I heard a lot of you bets from Rucco last yesterday.

There were a lot of you bets.

There's two of them right there.

Right out of the gate. That's his go-to. This is the one I was talking before, like the slide step, hand in the face, it just... He's so good. He really is. I was telling Fleeg's on the warm-up show. It's not quite Steph Curry, but I do feel

like every time he lets go the ball, it's going in the bucket. Every time? You have a lot of confidence in him. When he gets going like that. Like I don't expect him to miss. Yeah. Like I get, you know, you know, and we've been, we've had plenty of time to be down as Nick's fans where like somebody puts up a shot and you're like there's no way in hell that's going in right like you have that

hopeless feeling with brunson I feel like every time I feel that that that little jolt of optimism I feel that tense moment of optimism where I'm going to be let down if it doesn't go in in the big moments I feel that about him hence clutch clutch player were you like me nervous when Mitchell heaved that ball off the missed free throw that thing was going to go in? I mean, there was always that, that doom part of me where I'm like, yeah, this is probably going. It's a ruin Christmas. But, no, not really. I mean, it was 80, you know, it was an 80. I know. He takes a hundred of those. He might make two.

That thing was online.

Might make two.

Oh, yeah, I'm not saying it's a high-percented shot, obviously, but he made a crazy shots. Which is why they don't have any issue with what they did. What else? Yeah, and Fleege just said it my ear, after what Halliburton did to them in the conference finals last year where the thing goes up 30 feet in the air and drops right down in the bucket,

I never rule anything from going.

That was probably one of the goofiest shots I have ever seen watching basketball. Anyway, Brunson finishes with 34 points and the Knicks come all the way back to beat the Cavs 126, 124. He was Brunson after the game on the fan base and the atmosphere at the garden yesterday. Just our fan base, our fans are electric. Yeah, it was crazy. And I think Christmas has something to do with it. The way our bench played, they got us back in the game, and they got the crowd fired up as well. I will tell you, sports fans are amazing. The idea that, you know, that's a Christmas day game.

And every year I know it's packed and all the stadiums are. I think that's the point. Like, we were walking into FedEx Field anymore. It's not? It's Northwest Stadium. I miss that. Yes, it's called Northwest Stadium. Whatever. Whatever.

Walking in yesterday and I'm thinking, all right, you got a 4-10 team.

You've got a 6 or 4-11, whatever.

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