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Can Knicks clinch NBA Title?

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4.48.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon discuss whether the New York Knicks can close out the series in Game 5 against the Spurs. They also debate the recent NHL playoff performances. Finally, they discuss the upcoming USA World Cup opener and group stage expectations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Pardon the interruption, but I'm Mike Lovon.

0:03.0

The World Cup is underway, Tony.

0:05.0

Do you have soccer fever? I'm Tony Cornhizer. Maybe does it give you hives on your inner thighs? I'll do that. I'm fired up. I'm ready to go. Ready to watch. You're going to go? When you say you're going to go? No, no, no. I thought you were going to go. You're not going to go.

0:20.0

You're not going to go.

0:21.0

No, no.

0:22.0

What's your going to sit from the TVs, multiple TV, and veg out. That's fine. Welcome to PTI, boys and girls. In today's episode, the Spurs try to stay alive. Texas Tech plays defense, and Taylor Twelman joins us to preview tonight's World Cup Opener for Team USA. But we begin today with last night's Stanley Cup final series game in which the home team, Carolina,

0:43.4

improved its playoff home record to 8 and 2 and took a 3-2 lead in the series by beating

0:48.3

Las Vegas 4 to 2.

0:49.9

Vegas coach John Tortorella said, quote, we will be back here.

0:53.9

I'm going to leave my clothes here. They'll be in the hotel, unquote. Will Bond, do you share Tortorella's confidence that the series is headed to game seven? Nope. Nope. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets there. Confidence? The key word here is confidence. No, I don't because Carolina's too good for me to be

1:11.4

confident that somebody's going to knock them off when they have that would-be game seven

1:15.7

on their home surface. No, no, no. I'm not going to there. I am preoccupied, though, with Bussy and

1:21.5

Anderson. I am. The goalings. The goaltenders for Carolina.

1:25.6

Bussie played last night. He made 23 saves, only allowed two goals, although he was down one-nothing in that game, right?

1:34.3

And then his teammates come back and score four unanswered.

1:38.4

He gave up two goals.

1:39.8

He, this 27-year-old rookie, and they show his parents in the stands, and they seem to be...

1:44.9

Long Island boy.

1:45.9

That's right.

1:46.5

And they seem to be alternating between, oh, my God, and disbelief and very proud, which is what parents...

1:52.6

What parents wouldn't be that?

1:54.0

But his story, Tony, is really cool, not to say that they couldn't go back to Anderson or they couldn't rely on Anderson if they needed

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