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The Stephen A. Smith Show

Stephen A. Smith and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Sports

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Stephen A. Smith is a New York Times Bestselling Author, Executive Producer, host of ESPN's First Take, and co-host of NBA Countdown.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:07.6	First order of business is the NBA playoffs, and that's where we're getting started,
0:12.0	where the finals are now set between the Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder.
0:16.3	The Pacers made the finals by putting away the New York Nixon game 6th Saturday night,
0:20.1	125 to 108.
0:21.8	The Pacers were ultimately the better team, and now they head to the finals Thursday night
0:25.8	to face the league MVP and Shea Gilgis Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder.
0:31.0	Can't say enough.
0:32.2	Listen, I thought the Knicks were going to win this series of seven games.
0:34.6	I really, really did.
0:36.1	But when they blew it in game one,
0:38.0	I didn't know how they could recover from that. And sure enough, they didn't. That's one
0:42.6	element to peel from it. Another element to peel from it is that the paces were deeper and they
0:47.0	were exceptionally well coached. And even though we respect Tom Thibito and what have you,
0:51.6	the bottom line is, is that he's not Rick Carlisle.
0:54.4	And then when you couple that with the fact that you got to look at the future in terms of the New York Knicks giving up five picks, four and protected first round picks for Mikhail Bridges.
1:04.6	And you saw his level of production or lack thereof at times.
1:08.6	It doesn't look too pretty for the New York Knicks.
1:11.3	They were there.
1:11.8	They were in the conference finals.
1:12.9	They were two games away from an NBA final's birth, but they didn't get it done.
1:17.1	And to be honest with you, I'm going to say something that's not going to be that popular.
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