Hour 2: Is Game 4 of The NBA Finals a Must Win For The Knicks?
First Take
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🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We'll have game five of the Stanley Cup final tomorrow night as the series returns to North Carolina. |
| 0:05.7 | The puck drops at 8 Eastern on ABC and as always on the ESPN app. |
| 0:12.1 | Time for our Draft King's sports game take and we've got three picks all for tonight's game four. |
| 0:17.0 | Doggy, you're up first. You've got Dylan Harper 25 or more combined points, rebounds or assists why i like him he fills up a box score he's not afraid he had a big game the other day his scores 12 13 points to get his six or seven rebounds 25's a lot because you're got to get four or five assists i'm a big fan i think in a lot of ways he he's not their second best player but he's their third best player I like him better than Fox. I'll go him. All right. I got Carl Anthony Towns, 35 or more combined points, rebounds, and assists. Eight games this postseason with that same stat line. He's also done it twice in the finals so far, but as we know, he had a very down game three. Only one assist in that game. I expect him to bounce back in a |
| 0:55.0 | big way at the garden tonight for game four. Stephen A, you have Wembe 12 or more rebounds. Well, why? I think it's going to be a physical game tonight. I think the New York Knicks are going to show a level of desperation that they didn't show in game three. It's going to be physical. You're going to see a lot of missed shots and obviously him being seven feet five and around the rim, |
| 1:13.7 | why would I think he ain't going to be physical. You're going to see a lot of missed shots. And obviously him being seven feet five and around the rim, why would I think he ain't going to be the one getting most of those new guys? I think he's going to get more than 12 rebounds in this game. All right. As a reminder, teams that go up 3 to 1 in the best of 7 series, there are 288 and 15 in those series, including 37 and 1 in the finals. |
| 1:28.1 | The lone team to complete the 3-1 comeback in the finals was the Cavaliers in the 2016 |
| 1:33.0 | finals against the Warriors. |
| 1:34.8 | Kendrick Perkins now joins us here on first take. |
| 1:37.3 | A perk. |
| 1:38.0 | And Perk is game four, a must win for New York tonight. |
| 1:41.3 | You damn right it is. |
| 1:43.2 | You damn right it is. Whoever wins this game |
| 1:46.0 | wins the series. And if you're the Knicks, you're approaching this as if it's no tomorrow. |
| 1:52.8 | Otherwise, winning two games on the road don't even matter, right? And when you think about it, |
| 1:59.0 | you want to bring your level, you want to get confidence back, right, within your locker room. And you don't want to keep giving confidence to the San Antonio Spurs, right? You don't want to keep giving them hope. You want to come in, you want to smash the gas. And by the way, to the Nick fan base, this is your time. This is your time. |
| 2:18.0 | No more excuses. |
| 2:19.1 | President Trump is not going to be there, so it's not any distractions. |
| 2:24.2 | It's going to be the, I saw the mayor announce that they could have a watch party outside |
| 2:29.0 | the arena. |
| 2:30.0 | And on top of that, when Biyama didn't get penalized for throwing y'all best player down to the ground. Mushing him in the face. Whatever you want to call it. He didn't get a penalty. I know. So that shows you that, hey, Victor Wimba is important. I wasn't saying it like it was light. I was saying it like it was very disrespectful. It was disrespectful. I mean, they just mush him in the face like that. |
| 2:51.0 | What? |
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