Hour 1: More or Less Confident in Knicks After Loss to Thunder?

First Take

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🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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First Take begins with SGA's impression of Harden in the Garden!! Shai mastered the art of the foul bait en route to a 7th straight win in MSG! Are we more or less impressed by the Knicks after a close loss to the reigning champs? (0:00) Then, Dak had some wise words for George Pickens on how to deal with NFL contracts! (19:50) Next, does Miami (OH) need to win the MAC tourney to reach the NCAA tourney? (35:40) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.7	Better your story.
0:31.2	Two of the NBA's best going at it.
0:33.6	Hungren, fires away the three, and it's good.
0:36.3	That gives the thunder.
0:37.3	Their largest lead here in the first half, up by 11. Brunson, three-pointer, gets it a go, and the game is tied. Nixon come back from 15 down. SGA knocks down the clutch three. Late game, got to just figure it out, and whatever it looks like. Get it into Brunson, Brunson, three and three-pointer won't go two good chances to tie the game
0:56.3	and the thunder hold on and went here at the guard yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so now work in new york
1:06.5	is probably not in my best interest to say this coming out of the gates, but those Shays, I'll tell you.
1:11.1	They'll get after you here in this city. I don't know what to tell you. Hello, everyone.
1:14.0	Welcome to First Jake. I am Shayorne. Now you probably heard the yelling next to me. That is Jay Will. Yeah, yeah. Tenea Guma Kay is hanging out with us, as is Stephen A. Smith. But let's get to what happened last night at the Garden. Oklahoma City, went to MSG last night.
1:26.5	They just barely got out with a win.
1:28.7	SGA at 26 points.
1:30.7	Chet Holmgren at 24. Garden. Oklahoma City went to MSG last night. They just barely got out with a win. SGA had 26
1:30.0	points. Chet Holmgren had 28 points. Jalen Brunson, he struggled shooting. He had only two points
1:35.7	in the first half. He finished with 16, but Brunson did total 15 boards. Carl Anthony Towns
1:40.3	played very well. 17 points, 17 boards. The Knicks had two good looks at the end of
1:45.0	regulation just was not enough for the Oklahoma City Thunder win. So the Knicks overcame a 15
1:50.6	point third quarter deficit to be right there at the end of it. Does that loss give you more?
1:57.5	Why are you sitting so low? Why are you sitting like that? I just wanted to bring the energy
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