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The Ringer NBA Show

How Mike Brown Changed the Knicks

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4.49.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Logan Murdock and Raja Bell are back with another edition of Real Ones, and they discuss the orange and blue skies everywhere following the Knicks' victory in the NBA cup. Can the Knicks make a run at the Eastern Conference title and possibly a championship? How did new coach Mike Brown change this team's playing style after how Tom Thibodeau ran things? Dillon Brooks had another controversial moment on Thursday night when he committed a flagrant foul against Steph Curry. But was it as bad as people made it seem? Should the NBA change the location of the NBA Cup final? Plus, Real One of the Week! (0:00:00) I ntro (0:20) Knicks Discussion (2:46) FanDuel ad break (20:55) FanDuel ad break (21:42) Amazon Prime ad break (22:16) Dillon Brooks's flagrant foul against Steph Curry (33:55) Should the NBA Cup move to Cameron Indoor Stadium? (44:38) Real One of the Week Hosts: Logan Murdock and Raja BellProducers: Victoria Valencia and Clifford AugustinAdditional Production Support: Ben Cruz and Conor Nevins Hit the mailbag! ⁠[email protected]⁠ The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out ⁠rg-help.com⁠ to find out more, or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Shopping. Streaming. Celebrating. It’s on Prime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's popping real ones. Logan Murdoch here.

0:13.8

Roger Bill there.

0:15.0

And by there, I mean live from Vegas.

0:18.1

It's going to be a doozy.

0:20.1

Let's get right to it.

0:21.5

Let's talk about the New York Knicks, who are currently 19 and 7 in the east right behind the Detroit Pistons.

0:28.4

They're currently on a seven-game winning streak.

0:30.7

In the last calendar month, they've only lost two games.

0:34.1

They're in the Raza zone of top five and points per game, three-pointers made, and three-point

0:39.1

percentage, second and offensive rating behind Denver, fourth in net rating, fourth in

0:44.0

opponents points per game.

0:47.0

And they won the NBA Cup.

0:50.6

Raja, how do you feel about the Knicks so far out far this season? How do they sustain this? Whatever

0:56.4

this magic is, how do they sustain it? Yeah, I mean, I like the Knicks. I like the Knicks, especially

1:02.2

in the Eastern Conference when you're talking about, you know, how wide open that is. They're

1:07.6

experienced in the playoffs in the Eastern Conference.

1:16.8

You know, they're shooting the ball a little more freely this year, I think, from three.

1:23.2

But when I go back and look at all of their numbers, I mean, Brunston's rationally up,

1:30.2

cats fractionally down, points per game, that is, O.G's hovering. What they have this year that they didn't have last year is a bench that can produce. They can go into their depth a little

1:36.7

bit more, which allows you to sustain, you know, runs within games. It allows you to sustain,

1:42.4

like, you know, runs throughout the course of, you know, a stretch of games because you're not, you're not having to always run those starters deep, deep into the fourth quarter in games that you ordinarily would be able to put away to start the fourth quarter. Because there's a handful of those throughout the course of an NBA season, right? When you're a good team where, hey, we can get up out of here.

2:01.7

We can let this bench get in there.

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