Did KAT save the Knicks’ season?
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🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Karl-Anthony Towns scored 20 points in the fourth quarter as the Knicks came back from a 20-point deficit to beat the Pacers and Dave DuFour and Es Baraheni give their reaction. They discuss KAT’s slow start and insane finish, how the Knicks may have benefited from foul trouble, and how the Pacers’ offense was stifled. Then, they take a look at the Wolves blowout win over the Thunder and preview Western Conference finals game four.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Es Baraheni
Executive Producer: Andrew Schlecht
Audio Producer: Grayson Moody
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
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| 0:42.8 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for May 26, 2025. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Dave DeFour here with Esperi. |
| 0:50.6 | Coming up, the Knicks pull off an improbable comeback and save their playoff lives. And we're going to talk a little bit about game three in the west and what to |
| 0:55.0 | look for in game four between the wolves and thunder good morning everybody good morning |
| 1:05.3 | dave yeah good morning dave yeah good to have you back, sir. Yeah, yeah, good to be back. |
| 1:12.0 | Good night Pacers. |
| 1:13.3 | Wow. |
| 1:14.2 | Blowing a 20-point lead for the Indiana Pacers. |
| 1:17.9 | Usually they're the ones mounting the 20-point comebacks, but the Knicks, no strangers |
| 1:23.0 | to 20-point comebacks, now completing their third third 20 point comeback win of the playoffs. |
| 1:29.5 | They just, they just refuse to do anything easy or normal, including this game. |
| 1:35.4 | As I, like, I thought the game was over. Obviously, that would have been a 3-0 lead, |
| 1:40.0 | series lead for the Pacers. I mean, middle of the second quarter, it's a 20-point game. |
| 1:46.1 | The Knicks just looked flat from the start. |
| 1:48.6 | The Mitchell Robinson, you know, lineup change didn't really have too much of an impact, |
| 1:53.1 | although we'll get into that. |
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