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Evan & Tiki

Best of the Knicks on WFAN: NBA Cup Champs!

Evan & Tiki

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4.6945 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Brandon Tierney, Boomer & Gio (18:46), and Evan & Tiki (33:47) all react to the Knicks winning the NBA Cup in-season tournament and what it means for the franchise and rest of season. Plus, Evan says the Knicks are not obligated to raise a banner for the NBA Cup (51:06); Marc Malusis makes the case to keep the core intact and not go after Giannis (1:02:31); Boomer wonders if this could be the Knicks’ year? (1:17:04)

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happened, everybody?

0:03.0

I enjoyed last night.

0:04.1

I don't know about you.

0:04.9

I think I was so curious as to how they were going to act after they won the game.

0:09.6

First of all, I wasn't sure if they were going to win the game down by 10 and they were a little bit out of whack.

0:14.8

That was fun.

0:16.0

And, you know, to me, this is a perfect example, really.

0:20.0

This is a perfect example of how miserable societies become

0:25.9

and what i mean by that is like when this was first introduced the concept now if you if you've

0:30.8

heard me even going back to the national stuff i've been very critical to the commissioner very

0:35.1

i think he's soft and i think that he's allowed the players

0:38.8

to take over and run the league. And, you know, with all the respect, I just think that Adam Silver

0:43.5

is more of a number two than a number one may be a better way to say it. I never thought he can,

0:48.2

he can shine Stearns his shoes. I mean, it's not even close, right? But you got to give credit where it's due a little bit.

0:56.0

And what I thought was initially a corny and a very contrived, you know, force-fed whatever,

1:03.9

I've actually come to enjoy it.

1:06.6

You know, I was going through the range of emotions here of how I felt about the cup.

1:11.4

But again, the first one was I stopped. I'm not interested. This is ridiculous. This is corny.

1:16.6

And then once I stopped being a little bit angry, I don't even know why I was angry over it.

1:20.9

But once I stopped being a little bit angry and stopped resisting it, I then quickly pivoted to being apathetic. Oh, the NBA Cup, whatever. Who's playing? Are we in it? I mean, is this a regular season games? The court regular? Is the court purple? Is the court red? Is the court blue? What uniforms we wear? And what the hell is? Like, where are we at? Is this just a regular game against the Raptors or does this actually mean something? So, but then in the semifinal, I got to admit I started getting a little bit hooked. A little bit, a little bit. And last thought I actually really enjoyed it to the point where I was obviously doing the St. John's game. John has beat the Paul. I mean, you better beat the Paul. And they did. So first conference win for St. John's. And as the tip was at seven. So I think the Knicks started at 8.30. And as soon as I got in the car, and I checked on my phone at some point from Queens. And I'm like, you know what? I'm looking forward, probably about an hour or so drive back

2:19.1

to New Jersey. And I put on the Nick game. And as I always do, I'm in the car because I'm a Knicks

2:24.4

fan. And I'm into it. Like there was definitely a ratcheting up of intensity. There was definitely

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