Kevin's NBA Finals predictions...Don't write off the Knicks!
The Kevin Sheehan Show
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | NBA finals game one tonight in San Antonio. The Spurs are four and a half point favorites. |
| 0:06.1 | They are a minus 200 favorite to win the NBA finals. Who do you like in how many games and |
| 0:15.2 | give me a headline from the series? So look, I think San Antonio is a better team. I think Oklahoma City would have been a better team. |
| 0:25.1 | I've been thinking throughout these playoffs at Oklahoma City would repeat. They are not going to repeat. I was dead wrong. |
| 0:32.3 | But I really did think when we got to the conference finals that the winner of San Antonio, Oklahoma City, |
| 0:40.9 | would beat the Knicks who I picked to beat the Cavaliers. |
| 0:44.4 | But I feel a little bit differently now. |
| 0:55.0 | I feel like the matchup is not, you know, as difficult for New York as maybe I would have thought a week ago. |
| 0:59.3 | There are a couple of things that I think are 100% important in this series. |
| 1:02.8 | First of all, the Knicks have to play fast. |
| 1:06.7 | I think it's going to be one of the things moving forward through the next several years when you're playing the spurs in a best of seven, |
| 1:12.4 | you've got to have the ability to play fast to try to face a defense that isn't set, |
| 1:20.6 | meaning Wembenyama's not sitting there waiting for your team in the middle of the paint or at the rim. |
| 1:27.2 | You've got to try to play fast, even after made baskets, |
| 1:32.5 | to play against a team that isn't set up defensively. |
| 1:37.4 | That's advantage. |
| 1:38.9 | The other team, when Wembenyama can't set up defensively. |
| 1:42.5 | And if you've watched Wembenyama throughout these playoffs, he does get tired. |
| 1:49.2 | You know, he's 7 foot 5 and, you know, as a big guy, you're usually going baseline to |
| 1:55.2 | baseline. |
| 1:56.0 | You know, smaller players usually go foul line to foul line, sometimes top of the key to top of the key, much |
| 2:02.3 | shorter in terms of the ground you've got to cover. When you're a big who plays underneath the |
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