The NBA going international, which really started with the dream team, has created a pool of athletes and superstars that never would have come about loving basketball without the growth of the NBA internationally.

So I predict this to you, and it's going to be a long time from now, but 20 years from now, we're going to have like British superstars in the NFL. I mean, we already have an IPP guy who is an international pathway program from the NFL, who is an all-pro, Jordan Maillada. That's right. He was a rugby player in New Zealand. Well, where was he from, Australia? I can't remember what. I thought it was Australia. Oh, Samoa, maybe Samoa or something like that. Whatever he's from, he wasn't... He didn't grow up in the state. And the only way that you get that kind of growth is by spreading the game. That's exactly right. I just saw a video from our buddy CP the franchise who was in the building last night as well, he showed Nick fans leaving. Like

Nick fans leaving with about seven and a half minutes to go and he tweets out the video,

there must be a fire drill going on, people are leaving. And obviously like the video is the

video. I respect it. Where I was sitting on the Chase Bridge, not a single person left. And trust me, I would be the first one to tell you about all the people leaving. We talked about it on Monday in regards to Metz Yankees. I did not see, and maybe it's just where I'm at. Maybe the people who are on the Chase Bridge are less likely to leave. I have no idea. CP had much better seats. I shouldn't say much better. He had more expensive seats. I think my seats are the best, but tusha. Like he's sitting

lower, lower bowl. So, because I said earlier on the show, not a single person left. Obviously

there's video proof that some people did. It was certainly not noticeable and I didn't see it

in my section. Now we've taken calls today from people that admitted they shut the game off.

Tiki admitted he shut the game off.

We had one guy say, he went to sleep.

We had another guy say that he hooked up with his wife.

Lots of different reasons for saying, hey, 22 down, I'm out.

But I tell you, as a witness, I did not see anybody on the Chase Bridge area of Madison

Square Garden leaving that game early. Good. And you shouldn't have because of what happened,

but it's hard in real time to say this thing is not, is not anything but over. It felt over.

And it felt like even if the Knicks made a valiant effort to come back, there was no way they were getting all the way back until they did. Yeah. I mean, there were many opportunities where like the Evan Mobley three out of the timeout that got it back to eight where it's like, all right, Cleveland's going to find a way. The one moment where I still knew Cleveland isn't going to find a way was the Hardin leading shot with about 30 seconds to go. Because at that point, I'm like, first of all, Jayland's just going to cook Hardin on the back. Right. There's no way. There's too much time. Right. If it was seven seconds, maybe. Yeah. The only question I had was on the Cavaliers final possession, will they just hit aer-beater? Because you never know. And Sam Merrill came so close to that. And here's what I can't get over. Sean, were you able to find Kenny Atkinson talking about the timeouts in post game? Kaplan was. Okay, great. Doesn't matter who. Good job by Cap. I want you to listen to Kenny Atkinson talking about why he didn't use a timeout as the Knicks were going on, what eventually was in 18 to 1 run. He did not use a timeout until it got to 18 to 1 and did not use timeouts. So Kenny was asked about this after the game. Listen to his answer because... Not acceptable. It is comical. Well, I like to hold my timeouts. I mean, you know, I didn't want to get one timeout at the end of the game. One or two point game, I try to hold them. Okay. She wants to hold a timeout. Well, did you hear what he said? I didn't want to. So at first I thought he was talking about the Like it's a one or two point game

I we won't be able to hold them

If we don't have a timeout

Meaning we won't be able to hold the Knicks back

If we don't have a timeout

You know what I'm you understand what I'm saying?

Like he was saying that if if we don't have a timeout

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