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Evan & Tiki

Hour 2: Knicks Fans Finally Get Their Moment After Years of Misery

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Evan Roberts and Tiki Barber react to the Knicks storming into the NBA Finals and what this run means for fans who endured decades of frustration, false hope, and brutal basketball. The conversation captures both the joy of the moment and the pressure that comes with realizing this may be the franchise’s best chance to win a championship. The guys rip into James Harden and Kenny Atkinson for their post loss comments, debate whether the Knicks must finish the job, and revisit the darkest days of Knicks fandom through old tweets and caller memories. They also dive into Evan’s Finals ticket dilemma, the value of Mikal Bridges, Jalen Brunson’s rise as the unexpected savior, and why this team feels different from every Knicks group that came before it.

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0:00.0

What I witnessed from two men who I guess I used to have an affinity for because they were both on my basketball team, the head coach Kenny Atkinson and James Harden, they both uttered two of the dumbest, most infuriating things I have ever heard coming off of an ass kicking.

0:19.0

And I'm curious which one is dumber to you, Tiki.

0:21.5

So let's start it off with James Hardin.

0:24.5

Obviously, James Harden was atrocious in this series, to the surprise of nobody.

0:29.1

He continues to be horrific in elimination games.

0:32.6

And while it may be somewhat out of context, I don't care.

0:36.8

Here's James Harden, even after a sweep at the hands of

0:40.0

the New York Knicks, still insisting his team is better. Genuinely, I do feel like we are the

0:46.0

better team, but, you know, series-wise, you know, it didn't show us. You know, and I sort of felt

0:53.2

bad like, should I present the whole context?

0:55.0

No, because there's no context.

0:58.1

We're saying it in a microphone with a straight face, I still think we're the better team.

1:02.9

After you get embarrassed and annihilated and lead for three and a half minutes at home,

1:07.5

there's no world where that's okay.

1:09.8

Yeah.

1:10.2

I mean, the only thing you could say potentially that they're better is at the guard position

1:15.9

because Donovan Mitchell and James Hardin is greater than Jalen Brunson, arguably, but not really.

1:23.0

Really?

1:23.5

Who's making that argument?

1:24.5

I'm just saying because they could, in theory, outscore them.

1:28.8

But it's not even, that doesn't work because Landry Schambit had an unbelievable series.

1:35.2

McHill Bridges was great, sometimes defensively.

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