Knicks Pummel Celtics, Advance to Eastern Conference Finals

The Mike Francesa Podcast

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Sports, Baseball, Football, Basketball

4.8 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The Knicks would not be denied in Game 6 as they dismantled the Tatum-less Celtics 119-81 to advance to play Indiana in the Eastern Conference Finals. Mike Francesa gives his instant reaction to the game. Mike also gives his thoughts on a solid Yankees victory in Game 1 of the 2025 edition of the Subway Series with the Mets, in Juan Soto's return to Yankee Stadium.

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0:00.0	It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.
0:04.0	Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the Bet Rivers Network on this Friday night.
0:09.5	And obviously, it was billed as this very special Friday night.
0:14.1	And it was with the Mets and the Yankees playing and Soto returning to Yankee Stadium.
0:20.2	And of course, the Knicks
0:21.3	trying to put away the Celtics in a pivotal game six after the Celtics had held serve
0:27.5	in game five and really put forth a big effort with no Tatum in a one-sided victory.
0:36.4	When I was analyzing game six, I said, the one thing I would do more than anything else that I had to do was I just had to take white out of the equation.
0:49.2	He had gotten the Celtics off so quickly.
0:53.2	And that had a stop.
0:55.6	Tonight had stopped.
0:57.3	Brown was the only reliable scorer they had.
1:00.3	They got nothing out of white early.
1:03.3	They got nothing at a Pritchard early.
1:05.5	They didn't get anything out of anybody else early.
1:08.6	They couldn't find a second scorer.
1:10.6	And the lead, although I didn't
1:12.9	think the Knicks were overly impressive. They were gritty enough defensively. I thought they got
1:20.0	superb efforts from Robinson and McBride defensively off the bench. And I think that's critical.
1:27.8	Bridges got out early.
1:30.2	Okay?
1:30.7	The numbers in this game mean absolutely nothing because the game was really three
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