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Evan & Tiki

Hour 3: Are These Knicks Having the Most Dominant Run New York Has Seen?

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Evan Roberts and Tiki Barber react to a Knicks playoff run that has felt almost shockingly stress free, comparing it to some of the most dominant championship pushes in New York sports history. From the 1986 Giants to the late nineties Yankees, the question becomes whether this Knicks team is giving fans something even better than drama: total control. The conversation also digs into Mike Brown’s impact, Tom Thibodeau’s legacy, Evan’s complicated Knicks hatred as a Nets fan, and the emotion pouring out of lifelong Knicks fans who endured years of bad basketball. With the NBA Finals now feeling real, the show captures the disbelief, joy, rivalry, and anxiety surrounding a New York basketball moment decades in the making.

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0:00.0

So far, it's been easy.

0:01.6

You know, besides being down 2-1 to Atlanta, it has been like, and when I say easy,

0:06.3

I don't mean easy in terms of the competition. I mean, easy in terms of how they've dominated. Yeah. Like, they're just rolling people over. There's no drama. If you're a sports fan that likes drama, there hasn't been much. No, the games have not been entertaining. The close-out game, the sweep, was not entertaining at all.

0:22.0

Game one, amazing.

0:23.2

Right, that was fantastic.

0:24.2

But outside of that, games have not been entertaining. The closeout game, the sweep, was not entertaining at all.

0:22.0

Game one, amazing. Right. That was fantastic. But outside of that, the drama has been drama-free.

0:26.4

So I started thinking from a New York perspective. We've seen plenty of championships, even if it was a long time ago.

0:31.8

Have we ever seen a run as dominating as this? And so your brain naturally takes you to the Yankees because of their dynasty in the late 90s. And the truth is, 1998, while the regular season was dominant, the postseason really wasn't. They were losing at Cleveland and the ALCS two games to one. They were about to lose game one in that whole big moment with Tino, strike three, not really, grand slam. Like the games were close. So I can't even say 1998.

0:56.3

It's probably of all years in 1999, the following year, where they lost one playoff game to

1:02.0

Pedro Martinez and the Red Sox. But even then, and I know it's a different sport, the games

1:06.6

were close. Right. So while they were winning most of the games, it was not with the same ease that the Knicks

1:12.4

have had.

1:12.8

Yeah, I mean, you think of the giants.

1:16.5

All those games were tight games, including the Super Bowl.

1:20.0

So it didn't feel like they dominated, not like this, where it felt easy.

1:27.3

Who else? Who else has been deep into the playoffs?

1:29.9

I got an answer and you're close.

1:31.9

You were right on the doorstep and then you stopped.

1:34.6

It is the Giants.

1:35.8

In 11?

1:36.4

In 1986.

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