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Nolan, the owner of the Knicks, has come out and said he expects his team to make the NBA finals,

and then he expects him to win once they get there this year.

So the pressure is on from the top.

The man who signs the checks, the man who hires and fires, has said he expects

his team after last year, going to the Eastern Conference Final six game, and then firing

the coach and bringing in a new coach, he expects them to go that next round. Now, I love talking

to Kendrick Perkins. We have not spoken to him a lot of late, but with the Knicks starting

tomorrow against the Hawks at the garden at 6 o'clock, I said, let's see if we can Perkins, we have not spoken to him a lot of late, but with the Knicks starting tomorrow

against the Hawks at the Garden at 6 o'clock, I said, let's see if we can get Kendrick on, and he was nice enough on a busy day to give us some time. Perk, thank you so much for coming on. How you doing? Man, I appreciate y'all having me. I'm doing well. I'm ready for the post season. All right. So Nick fans are a little bit worried that you look like you are down on the Knicks. What happened? Are you, in fact, down on the Knicks? Well, it's not that I'm down on the Knicks. I'm just high on the Celtics. And that's okay. I mean, can the Knicks, you know, pulled me wrong if they happen to match up against the Celtics and that's okay I mean can the Knicks you know pulled me wrong if they

happen to match up against the Celtics in the second round absolutely I just think the

Celtics are the favorites but I do think the nicks have been battling some identity crisis

throughout the course of the season that when you thought it appeared that period that they were supposed to be here and they'd strive, they were struggling.

And to me, to me, it's not a, I should I say it, a pecking order offensively.

Like, McKell Bridges and Ogen, Obes should not be featured before Carl Anthony

Thompson. And he's the most important player on the squad. Now, for as James Dolan

comments, that's a bit, that's a bit, that's a tad bit crazy. Like, I think you let it

play out, but the Knicks are playing with house money at this moment.

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