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The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Colin talked about the Knicks historic playoff run and why a LeBron move to Golden State makes too much sense. Also, why Jalen Brunson's path reminds him of Sam Darnold and why Nick Saban's comments about the state of college sports seem a bit hypocritical
Plus, Indiana Governor Mike Braun on the Bears potential move to Hammond, IN
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.7 | Here we go. |
| 0:07.0 | It is a Friday and a good one. |
| 0:09.5 | We may have breaking news. |
| 0:13.1 | LeBron may be fueling up his private jet, ready to fly to the Bay Area. |
| 0:19.0 | Oh, the World Cup is getting close. I can smell it. I can feel it. German team in town |
| 0:24.0 | having dinner last night. RPM steak. Getting ready for the friendly tomorrow against the United |
| 0:29.6 | States men's national team. Our show will be well represented. Good to have you on a Friday. |
| 0:44.1 | So it's the New York Knicks are probably the most likable, great or potentially great New York team ever. The Yankees were very polarizing. |
| 0:51.3 | You know, people were more into the, you know the brady patriots than like |
| 0:55.4 | eli's giants right they were underdogs and you know you could the patriots go undefeated it's kind |
| 1:01.1 | of fascinating it's a likable team it's likable guys and the nicks also and this is feels |
| 1:07.3 | unexplainable if you go to the first 15 games of the playoffs, they are not only the |
| 1:13.8 | greatest team ever in point differential, by a mile. And the teams they're much better than |
| 1:22.1 | include the 2017 KD Warriors, arguably the best team ever, The 96 Bulls, probably Michael Jordan's best team ever. |
| 1:31.5 | The 87 Lakers, probably the best Magic Johnson team ever. |
| 1:36.1 | The 86 Celtics, arguably the best Larry Byrd team ever. |
| 1:41.5 | And the Knicks point differential blows all of them away. So what do we make of it? |
| 1:50.5 | Well, Colin, they've got a lot of lottery picks. Well, Kat was a number one pick and Mikhail Bridges |
| 1:56.6 | was top 10, but they don't have a lot of lottery picks. It's a lot of mid and late first round guys. |
| 2:03.2 | Well, Colin, Carl Anthony Towns and Jalen Brunchner, a couple of Hall of Famers. |
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