Knicks Comeback or Cavs Collapse? + Ideas for Next Mavericks Coach

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🗓️ 20 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The New York Knicks pulled off an epic Game 1 comeback in the Eastern Conference Finals, erasing a 22-point fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers in overtime. Wes Goldberg, Matt Moore and Haize break down Jalen Brunson’s 38-point performance, Cleveland’s late-game collapse, Kenny Atkinson’s timeout management and whether the Knicks won the game or the Cavs gave it away. Then, the Dallas Mavericks officially turn the page by parting ways with Jason Kidd after five seasons, shortly after hiring Masai Ujiri as team president. What kind of coach should Dallas target next? What does Cooper Flagg need around him? And could Kyrie Irving draw trade interest this offseason? Plus, the crew takes stock of a wild 48 hours of conference finals basketball with big-picture takeaways on Knicks-Cavs, Spurs-Thunder, the NBA’s future, James Harden’s role and which team faces more pressure in Game 2: the Thunder or the Cavaliers. Subscribe to Locked On NBA Daily for daily NBA playoff coverage, coaching news, trade rumors and smart basketball debate.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Locked-on NBA Daily.
0:03.0	The Knicks complete an epic comeback to take game one of the Eastern Conference Finals.
0:07.0	Did the Knicks win the game or did the Cavs give it away?
0:09.0	Meanwhile, the Mavericks fired Jason Kidd.
0:11.0	We'll talk about who should be the next coach of Cooper Flagg and the Mavs
0:14.0	and why one insider believes teams are going to be calling about a certain star point guard this summer.
0:18.0	Locked-on NBA Daily starts now.
0:26.6	You are Locked on NBA, your daily NBA podcast.
0:31.5	Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
1:11.4	Hello and welcome back to Locked on NBA Daily. I'm West Goldberg. That's Matt Morin-Haze. We have a jam-packed show for you today. The Dallas Mavericks officially turned the page on Jason Kidd. I'm going to ask which conference finals team is facing the most pressure in game two. But we have to start with game one of the Eastern Conference Finals. The Knicks beat the Cavs in overtime after trailing by as many as 22 points in the fourth quarter with Jalen Brunson finishing with 38 points. He was awesome in that fourth quarter. Just an absurd end of this game. A Knicks comeback, a Cavaliers collapse. Here's more on what went down from the locked-on Cavs side of things.
1:11.8	Oh, boy.
1:19.0	What I can only term as an epic collapse, a complete and total choke job, a failure unlike anything that I've ever seen where the Cavs had a 22-point lead over the New York
1:24.2	Knicks with less than eight minutes left in the fourth quarter, in Madison Square Garden,
1:28.8	they were completely and absolutely dominating that game against New York.
1:33.1	And then they absolutely 100% just collapsed in embarrassing and despicable fashion.
1:40.8	Like, there's no nice way to talk about this.
1:43.3	This was, to me, a pathetic performance by
1:46.3	the Cavs down the stretch of this game. There is no way, shape, or form that they should have
1:51.1	lost this game. They did just about everything wrong for the final seven minutes in change. I think
1:57.8	there are a lot of people to blame. Yeah, the players have to play better,
2:05.6	but I think, like, first and foremost, this is on Kenny Atkinson. Of those four timeouts that the Cavs had, Kenny Atkinson called one of them. So we could do the blame game part of this,
2:11.4	and I certainly want to, but I want to. I want to as wild. Age old sports radio question, Matt, did the Knicks win this game or did the Cavs lose it?
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