Hour 2: Is Knicks Finals Run The Best in NBA History?
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:31.6 | Welcome back to first take of party in like it's 1999, these Knicks fans, New York, going back to the NBA finals. |
| 0:37.3 | The Knicks have won 11 straight games in the postseason, and it started in game four of the first round against the Hawks. Despite trailing in the series 2-1, New York won each of the next three games by 15 or more points to advance to the East semis. In those semis, the Knicks met the 76ers. It showed no signs of slowing down. In a sweep, |
| 0:55.4 | the Knicks finished off the Sixers in Philadelphia by scoring 144 points in game four, |
| 1:01.0 | their most in a playoff game in franchise history. A date with the Cavs followed in the |
| 1:05.0 | conference finals, but it was a quick one. The Knicks completed another sweep and we'll enter the |
| 1:09.1 | finals with a plus 19.4 points per game differential, the highest in NBA history. So now the question is, is I can't believe I'm asking this question, but I'm going to do it. Is this Knicks final run, the best finals run ever? Stephen A. Smith, go ahead. Like in all of the NBA. |
| 1:28.4 | What's up, y'all? |
| 1:30.6 | Jay, what's up, Jay? What's up, Jay. What's up? Jay, what's up? |
| 1:31.3 | Jay, what's up? How you doing, bro? |
| 1:32.2 | Good to see you, man. I see you, Cam. I see you with the suit today, essay. Always looking for you, man. I was, I was thrown by the question. Go ahead, Stephen A. I love my New York |
| 1:40.1 | Don't do it |
| 1:40.6 | Don't do it |
| 1:41.6 | Don't do it |
| 1:42.8 | I can't say |
| 1:43.6 | I can't say yes to this |
| 1:45.1 | I'm going to say |
| 1:46.2 | The answer to this is no |
| 1:47.4 | I think |
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