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

Hello, good, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the Bet Rivers Network.

We come to you after game one of the Eastern Conference finals, and I would have thought

it was going to be a little different topic a little while ago as I was sitting there in the fourth quarter.

As with seven minutes left, I watched fans starting to leave the garden.

Okay, Cleveland's up 22 points.

And you're figuring, wow, everyone thought the Knicks were going to win this series.

The Knicks were almost a three to one favorite in the series.

Now they got their comeuppance.

They can't do anything easily.

Now they're going to make this a brutal series.

This team has talent, Cleveland, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And then it started.

And honestly, I look at this. A lot of Nick fans who are

giddy right now and are listening to this, look at this from the Nick standpoint, which I understand.

I observe the game and I say, why?

Because when you blow a lead like this, when you lose a game like this, and this game will, without question, absolutely devastate, absolutely devastate Cleveland. Listen, I didn't think Cleveland's going to win

the series anyway. This game will have enormous repercussions because it's a game that

they had won, Hardness standing on the foul line with a 22 point lead and he misses the second free throw.

Okay.

It is 752 on the clock.

The Knicks are down 22.

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