Knicks Win a Trophy & NBA Expansion Soon?? + New NBA Cup Location?

Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

ESPN

Sports, Basketball

4.2 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN's Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to break down the Knicks big victory to claim the NBA Cup over the Spurs including what San Antonio showed the league during this run. Plus, the guys discuss some big updates from NBA commissioner Adam Silver including if there may be a new home for the NBA Cup, some major updates on league expansion and what may come of the Heat & Terry Rozier. Finally, we talk Cooper Flagg’s outrageous play of late and a passionate reaction from Ime Udoka. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi there. Surprise.
0:02.1	30 for 30 presents Booja.
0:05.2	Can I get a witness from the congregation?
0:08.1	You can't stop authenticity.
0:10.0	Boo ya!
0:11.0	Stewart was exactly like you saw him on camera, off camera.
0:14.5	He dialed it up 10%.
0:15.7	Can you imagine the impact of young black boys and girls looking at that going, I feel seen.
0:21.4	He changed the culture.
0:22.7	He changed sports.
0:24.2	Stream Booja, presented by Madelo right now on the ESPN app.
0:34.5	Hello, welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast.
0:37.2	We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Tuesday evening, where for the first time in my lifetime, I can say the New York Knicks are champions.
0:47.7	Joining us from Las Vegas, where they handed out the hardware for the NBA Cup tonight.
0:51.8	And I have to say, I think some pretty good looking gold
0:55.2	medals that went with the NBA Cup with the Knicks championship of the Cup is Tim Bontems.
1:01.1	I think the Knicks have won some Summer League championships in Vegas also. I take it back.
1:05.3	Let me, let me rephrase then. I want to apologize. There are certainly, there certainly
1:09.8	will only be one new banner
1:11.0	raised uh for a championship at the uh at the garden in the last 52 years that's that's for the NBA
1:17.5	cup it's going to be a banner and no McMahon was very interested in whether it be a banner or not
1:21.8	there will be uh joining us from Dallas where he was ejected from Vegas, um, uh, like the Thunder
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