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The New York Knicks Eastern Conference champs.

Jalen Brunson, the Eastern Conference Finals, MVP.

The Knicks back in the finals for the first time in 27 years.

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You know, you say 27 years.

Effectively in 1999 is when Jim Dolan took over the Knicks and the Rangers.

Now, the Dolan Family Cable vision had it 94, but Jim took over stewardship of both franchises

in 1999.

Yeah, it took a long time to get here.

Yes, it did.

But we're here.

Yes, it did.

And I keep thinking back to, know his appearance on uh carton

with cac yeah and him talking about we're not raising a banner for the NBA cup which is the right

thing to do uh but this team is good enough to go all the way we want to raise a championship banner

yeah and it felt like four games away from that right we felt like a like a bit of a touch-the-money situation at the time, but not now. And he sits there in that front row behind the basket, and he's got his legs cross, and he's got that look on his face like, you guys better win because I put everything into this. And right now, he is living the dream.

I mean, he was living the dream last year when he was driving around, you know, handed basketballs out of cars to kids. Remember that? He was doing that whole thing. And this team's even better than it was last year. Well, they're healthy. Yep. They're healthy. And they added a couple key pieces in the offseason and at the trade deadline that have played and worked out pretty well for them.

So I did see Evan just now, and he goes, you'd be mad. key pieces in the offseason and at the trade deadline that have played and worked out pretty well

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