in this season of ups and downs and who was healthy, who was not.

The only other time I was more confident in the Knicks than I am right now is when they went on that initial run after the Ananobe trade and Randall was still healthy.

They were like the best team in the league for a couple weeks.

That was the only other time.

Right now, I'm not quite as confident as I was then, but it's close. I mean, if I was a 10 out of 10 then, I'm a 9 out of 10 now.

And not to say that Julius Randall being off of this team for the postseason is going to completely sink them.

I do think that they'd be the best version of themselves with him healthy, but I still think there isn't a team in the Eastern Conference that is head and shoulders

better than the New York Knicks.

And it's never, I haven't said that in a long time.

Since Jordan left to play baseball.

Yeah.

You're going way back.

Yeah, I understand.

I mean, there is not, I mean, I know the Celtics record-wise are better than the Knicks,

13 games, whatever it is, but we know that they're not that much better than the New York

Knicks.

I mean, they would be, the Celtics would be favored, but it wouldn't be this massive

favorite in the series if they met each other in the playoffs. You've got to give them credit.

We always talk about, you know, putting pieces together, and perhaps it's the college connection,

whatever it is, this group of players, they seem to enjoy playing with one another. It goes to what

I said before. It seems like one knows where the other is going to be. There was one fast break yesterday. I think it ended with a Bogdanovich three. So that has

nothing to do with the college connection I was talking about. But just in terms of the

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