Today on the big three and 30 NBA, the Knicks finished the sweep of the Cavaliers.

Did it in an overwhelming blowout yet again.

Cleveland has to reassess after getting swept out of the playoffs.

Obliterated, annihilated, destroyed, whatever adjective you want to use, it's accurate, and that's exactly what happened.

And the Lakers make a hire in the front office.

Making good on the promise to fill out the front office.

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every day. The New York Knicks are headed to the NBA finals for the first time since 1999 after sweeping the Cavaliers.

Gavin Shawl and XJ with locked on Knicks take you through the recap. The Knicks won their 11th straight playoff game.

Did it in an overwhelming blowout yet again. The Thunder or the Spurs are next, but they have a lot more pain

to go through. And the Knicks just have a long week off dominant again. But the one place we

start, XJ, I think, is Knicks fans, Knicks Nation, former Knicks players deserving this.

The moment from this game, we were talking about this before,

like the surreal nature of all this, but the moment that stuck with me was the trophy

presentation. And I think going in, I anticipated a win. I kind of anticipated that that,

unless it came down to like a last second shot or something, that would be the moment where it hit

me. And I've talked about this before I went to

Clyde's basketball camps growing up, right? So he's sort of been in my life since I was like seven years old and seeing him up there, seeing Ewing, who once upon a time, Jalen Brunson was hiding in his locker room, getting it reiterated that, hey, Brunson, like the last time this team was in the finals, his dad was on the team, that he grew up a fan, that Kat made sure to say that he grew up a fan. I was just seeing Clyde, like, in his 80s, get to hand that off with Mike Breen on the mic before. The Landry Shamich here, I almost started crying. Like, that was for a guy guy wasn't sure he's going to be on the roster

has like brutally separated his shoulder twice in the last three years i'm going to toss it to you

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