Hour 1: Are The Knicks Title Contenders?

First Take

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4.2 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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First Take resumes with the NBA (Cup) Championship Knicks! Windy joins to talk about their title hopes, and Doggy talks about the absurdity that is hanging a Cup Championship banner. Next, a Bears-Packers preview, and the Dolphins are benching Tua for Quinn Ewers. Why??? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:41.6	You don't know why, because Orange and Blue Skies, baby.
0:44.4	Orange and Blue Skies, it's the NBA Cup this morning.
0:48.0	In a few months, it's going to be the Eastern Conference, and we're going to be in the NBA Finals.
0:52.4	Did you see the Knicks?
0:55.8	Did you see Jaylen Brunson. Did you see the Knicks? Did you see Jalen Brunson?
1:01.2	Did you see O.G. Ananoby? That's what I've been talking about, baby. It's just a matter time.
1:07.3	It's just a matter time before that curse from 19, from a championship drought, spanning back to 1973. Comes to an end. It's your boy, Stephen A.
1:12.7	Go New York, go, New York, go.
1:15.2	Go, New York, go.
1:18.3	Let's go.
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