Does that give you some more hope Rami as a diehardt Nix fan?

Do you like that one?

I don't think any of these historical things make a big difference at all.

I really don't because it's different. Every year's different. Every series is different. Can I tell you why in this case you're wrong? I know what you're going to tell me because playoffs experience, losing it the first time. Yes. Helps you the next time. I have been steadfast about this.

Now, are there exceptions?

You can find them throughout history.

I'm not trying to say it never happens.

But I believe about this. Now, are there exceptions? You can find them throughout history.

I'm not trying to say it never happens.

But I believe, and this is the reason I've been down on the pistons all year. Well, I've never believed they're going to the NBA finals. Because I think that you need that experience. You need the scar tissue. It matters. And I give you credit, Sean, because you said that a lot about the Jets in the Aaron Rogers era.

You're like, bro, you can't jump the line. You just jump in the line? Can't chop the line. Now, I think that happens sometimes in football like the Bengals did when they got to the Super Bowl. Or Brady with the bucks. Sure. But in basketball, you don't jump the line, man. Pay your deuce. Like, even the thunder.

Like, they didn't just all of a sudden become this. I think there's a slow growth. And right now, look, could you argue that Phillies have the slow growth? Absolutely. They have. I mean, it's been painfully slow for them. Has Cleveland had the slow growth? To a degree, I think they've been mostly fraudulent. Detroit just won their first series,

which is part of why I've been skeptical.

San Antonio.

I was going one matters. I think the New York Knicks have been the definition of getting the scar tissue of losing,

suffering, having brutal losses.

Sometimes it's bad luck because it's injuries like two years ago.

Sometimes it's just losing a team that you were better than in Miami.

Sometimes it's just last year where you had a

2-0 lead and a leading game three, and it was right there for you. It was sitting right there

to take a 3-0 lead, and you blew it. I think the Knicks are very well equipped as the absolute

definition of a team. They are Bob Dole in 1996. Wow. They are Ronald Reagan in 1980.

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