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This is the D.P.H. Rowan and Rothenberg podcast. Let the wild rumpets begin.

Listen live weekday mornings from 6 to 10 a.m. on 880 ESPN in New York, the ESPN

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This is DiPiatoro and Rothenberg.

What are you expecting to see from the Knicks in this series? They're the better team that should win the series. Simple as that. Better than 50-50 chance. It's a five-game series. Everybody in that locker room has a competitive spirit that I like and that I can say is unmatched. I think that the Knicks are the team that the Celtics have to contend with most seriously. We're competing not just for 53 wins.

We're competing to win it.

This is DiPiatoro and Rothenberg on ESPN, New York, and streaming live on YouTube.

And we will get to the Knicks in a couple of minutes because it all starts tomorrow. 5 o'clock pre, and that'll be on 10.50 a.m. And then right when the Mets are done, probably losing to the Cubs, we'll join the Nix in progress here on 880 ESPN New York. Why do you laugh? No, you're not optimistic, are you?

Well, how could you be?

Because you can't be, that's why.

I mean, they're an absolute disaster right now.

Well, wait a time.

I got to check the pitching matchup.

It's Sengit today.

Yeah.

And then it's Peralta tomorrow against Javier Assad.

And then, oh, God.

No, Peralta against Tione and then Peterson against Assad.

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