Danny Parkins on Knicks beating Spurs in game 1 of NBA Finals, Russell Wilson's Hall of Fame case | 06.04

The Right Time with Bomani Jones

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🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode of The Right Time, Bomani Jones and Danny Parkins break down why Karl-Anthony Towns might be the real key to a New York Knicks title run. Bomani argues that KAT has been the Knicks' best player in the postseason and explains why New York looks its most dangerous when the offense runs through Towns instead of falling into heavy Jalen Brunson isolation ball. They also get into how Towns' aggressiveness has changed the way people see him, why his effort level has been the biggest difference, and what this kind of playoff run could mean for his long-term legacy if the Knicks finish the job. Later in the episode, Bomani and Danny debate Russell Wilson's Hall of Fame case, including how much his Pro Bowls matter, how his resume compares to Matthew Stafford, and whether public opinion has swung too far against him after the Denver years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Wave.
0:02.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original.
0:13.0	My name is Beaumani Jones.
0:15.0	Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast.
0:16.0	Thanks for watching us on YouTube.
0:18.0	Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give
0:21.7	us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. It is Thursdays with Danny Parkins. Check
0:27.6	out first things first on FS1. Brother, what's going on? Joe and Bo, good morning. Carl Anthony Towns
0:33.7	is three games away from being an NBA champion. What a world. Oh, okay. So we could get like straight to this. We can do pleasantries too, but like, come on. Let's not bury the league. No, no, no, no, no. Like that's, it's not just that we're three games away from him being a champion. We're three games away from him not just being on the champion, but being the reason that they would be champions.
0:54.4	So, Joel, I don't know why it is that Joel always come up with he ain't here,
0:59.6	but this happened in a group chat with Joel.
1:02.0	And, you know, Joel has this weird protective thing about Carl because he felt like people
1:07.7	would be a mean to him.
1:09.6	Oh, right.
1:10.9	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, probably were, yeah, yeah, but they weren't wrong.
1:15.1	But anyway, anyway, he pops up with this thing about towns.
1:19.7	And he says something to me about how I have been offering towns faint praise this postseason.
1:24.6	And that's not true, right?
1:26.4	I started the postseason saying that if the Knicks are going to win a championship, he had to be their best player. That that was their only chance. And they have gotten here because he has been their best player. He's been their best player also weirdly enough on 20% usage. Like, it's not like he's been their best player because he's out here knocking down every buck. He's been their best player because once things run through him, you have this reminder. There's literally nobody in the league that can guard him except for number 32 on the Knicks. And the spurs don't have anybody who can really guard him, right? Like, Victor can guard him in the way that Victor can guard everybody because you never know when the block's going to come. But Carl is so much bigger than him that if he gets by him by just a little bit,
2:05.4	right? The shoulders are past him. There's nothing really he can do. And the Spurs, every other
2:10.1	big man on the Spurs is as old as me. All of them, right? They're unplayably old,
2:16.8	except for Luke Cornyett.
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