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

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

We join you on this Wednesday evening after the Knicks went up to Boston and found that this wasn't going to be as easy as maybe some people thought.

As I decided to tell you after the game the other night, hey,

the Celtics weren't going to go hide. They weren't going to lay down. They were going to fight

this. And they came out tonight. And let's be honest, they put forth a tremendous performance.

They got some really terrific performances, especially the surprise performance.

And I thought they would give them a lot more minutes tonight.

I've told you throughout the series that Porzingis looks like a mummy.

Maybe he's hurt.

Maybe he's not.

You can never figure Porzingis out.

But he's absolutely worthless in this series now.

We'll get to him in a minute.

But this was the night that Cornett transformed himself into a mini Bill Walton as he put on

an absolute show. Five for five from the floor, dunks, tippins, nine rebounds, seven blocks, okay, as he put forth a absolutely

vintage, classic, 25 minutes and bailed out their problem with Pawsengis and gave them a very big lift tonight.

But check it off.

Brown, probably as good an all-around game as he's ever played.

His defense on Brunson, his offense, 26 points, and he could have had another 10 or 15 if he wanted.

Eight rebounds, 12 12 assists a virtuoso

performance for brown an incredible performance by white who has become a thorn in the nick side

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