Hour 1: Is Brunson An All-Time NY Athlete?

First Take

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🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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First Take resumes with all-time New York athletes. Jeter, Eli, and Rivera hold a permanent spot on the Mt. Rushmore. Did Brunson just steal Clyde's spot? Then, the Morris twins debate Dybantsa vs Peterson. Who's going first overall? Next, after a star studded World Cup night that saw Haaland, Messi and Mbappe score multiple goals, Roger Bennett tells us who the favorite is a week in! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.0	Another Brunson barrage.
0:35.4	It's the most points ever scored by a Nick in a finals game. After 53 years, the Knicks are finally NBA champions once again.
0:40.9	The finals MVP is the captain, Yalen Brunson.
0:46.9	Thankful that this opportunity presented itself and we're able to get done.
0:50.4	He will be the king of New York for the rest of his life. Hello, everyone. Welcome to first take. Shea Cornett here with you. Stephen A. Smith. Mark Heath Morris is here. Chris Maddo. Russo. Marcus Morris is here. We got a full table. How's everyone feeling? Good? Really good. Nixon's the champions. We're still going. Wednesday.
1:11.6	I'm doing just fine.
1:12.6	I'm doing just fine. There's a parade tomorrow. There's a parade tomorrow. Don't act like the championship to Saturday and it's just all over. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. You're going to be celebrating for the year. Yeah. Well, at least for a week. Let's talk about that next parade tomorrow because New York exactly 24 hours away.
1:29.2	The city around us here because New York exactly 24 hours
1:28.7	away. The city around us here in New York, gearing up for potentially the largest parade in New York
1:33.6	history. Largest estimated crowds in years past have been around 5 million people and it sounds
1:39.0	like the Knicks faithful could eclipse that. After all, they have waited 53 years for this. And so Doggy, we have not heard from you since the Knicks win and since Jalen Brunson's heroic MVP performance. Somebody has to throw a coach. Okay, hold on. Let me ask the question. Where does Brunson rank among athletes over the last five decades since essentially the Knicks won their last championship? All right. So let's go through it for a second. Guys, you ready for me? You're going to fight me off
2:03.4	today, the both of you? He fights me off all the time. He don't know his fanny from his elbow. You two do. Here we go. Here we go. You can't put him ahead of Jeter. You've got 3,400 hits. he won four titles.
2:15.3	You can't put,
2:15.7	that's not fair.
2:16.4	He's a Yankee.
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