Jalen Brunson Delivers a Knicks Playoff Moment for the Ages | Evan & Tiki

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🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Knicks stunned Madison Square Garden with a comeback that instantly entered franchise history, rallying from 22 points down in the fourth quarter to steal Game 1 from Cleveland. Evan Roberts and Tiki Barber react to the chaos, the energy inside the building, and the brilliance of Jalen Brunson leading a comeback that had even loyal fans believing the game was already over.

The guys relive the defining moments from the final minutes, including Landry Shamet’s improbable three, Mikal Bridges’ clutch shooting, and the Cavaliers’ collapse under pressure. They also discuss fans admitting they shut the game off too early, the emotional swing inside the Garden, and why this Knicks team feels different from past playoff runs.

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0:00.0	Did that just happen?
0:02.4	Did I just witness a moment that Nick fans will never forget for the rest of their lives?
0:08.6	And the answer is yes.
0:10.7	Yes.
0:11.4	Thank you.
0:11.8	Nick fans, you have one person to thank.
0:14.4	Who?
0:15.3	Jaylon Brunson.
0:16.0	He happens to be sitting on the other side of the glass in this studio.
0:20.2	Who?
0:20.6	Sean Morrash.
0:21.6	What did he do?
0:22.2	I sat for hours, six hours of traffic today.
0:25.8	But somebody out there sat through hours of the same traffic and spent hundreds of dollars
0:31.7	on tickets only to see the calves belt to the ass of the Knicks tonight.
0:37.7	Woof. Sean Morash at 1022 p.m.
0:40.7	Can I defend him?
0:42.3	I was in the building last night with 18,000 wonderful people.
0:46.9	Okay?
0:47.6	Every single one of them was a Nick fan except for three people.
0:51.9	Me?
0:52.7	This random Cavs fan I ran into and Dayron Sharp of the Brooklyn Nets, okay? Everybody else was rooting for the Knicks. And I think everyone thought the same thing. Yeah. They thought, wrote it. They thought what Sean said, which is, okay, this was a bad one. It's probably the Rust's fault. And I do think that most Nick fans weren't going to give up on the series. They weren't going to believe this was going to go sideways. But I think at 22 down with seven and a half minutes to go, Sean Morash represented a lot of people. And what I find fascinating is, look, no one left early. Okay, remember I told you how Met fans left the Met Yankee game early? Right. Nobody left this game early, but I know for a fact. There are people listening right now, and we are a safe place, 888-808-101-19. There are people that shut the game off. That was me. Excuse me?
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