So Friday we expect dress rehearsal kind of game last preseason game and then it gets real in a week.

It's putting night next Wednesday and the schedule at the beginning as the NBA likes to do, putting good teams against good teams early to get the intrigue up.

Got to be ready to go.

Opener against Boston last year. That was supposed to be the conference finalist preview. Maybe this year. Knicks and Cavs.

Hey there, Knicks fans. How you doing? It's your boy, Jonathan Macri, with you for

post-game preseason post-game edition of the Nix Film School podcast to talk about a game that was the basketball equivalent

of a shark my lord who boy um if you stuck with that one the whole time from tip off to the final

buzzer take a bow give yourself a pat on the back.

Have a cookie.

Go find a little gold star sticker and pop it on your shirt or your something.

Because you deserve much credit.

I will just say that.

That was, oh boy.

That was gnarly.

And of course, we're going to talk about it because we talk about every game.

And I was one of those unfortunate souls, of course, who watched the whole thing all 48 minutes.

Thank God we didn't get overtime in that game.

Although, I don't know.

Even with a little bit of spunk the Nick showed there towards the end. I don't think they were making that level of comeback.

So

let's take a step

back and right off the bat

...