It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.

Hello, good and everybody and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the BetRivers Network,

and just more of the same from the Knicks as they storm, and there's no other word to use,

surge into the NBA finals for the first time since 1999.

So for all the long-s long suffering Nick fans out there,

and we heard from all you forever. And we understand how long and painstaking it has been.

So take a minute, take a day. Hey, take a week. You got a week. The NBA finals don't begin until Wednesday, June 3rd, and they'll begin on the road.

And just enjoy that the Knicks will be playing in the NBA finals. we'll have a chance to win an NBA championship, and dismiss all the other stuff, okay? Because what you're going to start to hear now is

the detractors are going to come out to try and knock what the Knicks have done, which is silly, because

what the Knicks has done has been ultra-impressive, has been completely dominant.

Has it been against the top, top, top competition in the NBA?

No.

No one's trying to say it has.

The Knicks haven't said that.

The Knicks have handled, I think, this dominant run very, very well.

They know what's at the other side.

They know what's awaiting them, whether it's the generational player who is just coming into his own if they find a way to win the series.

And they will have to grow up in the last three games of the series as a young,

because they're a very young team of the spurs. They will have to grow up to win the series.

Even with the injuries that OKC has, I think they'll win the series. I think they'll, I think it will go seven games because I think M.B.

We'll come up with another big effort in game six and he's a handful to say the least.

Okay, would the Knicks rather play the spurs?

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