Knicks win the NBA championship! Hurricanes win the Stanley Cup! A the White House hosted a UFC fight? (Episode 1471 Hour 1)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 15 June 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘concrete jungle’ as in New York City as in the New York Knicks as in Jalen Brunson as in Mike Brown as in Victor Wembanyama. The Knicks did it. Won a title for the first time since 1973. Brunson gets the MVP. Wemby learns a lesson. And the Knicks party will continue for a long time. (28:00) The Carolina Hurricanes have won the Stanley Cup! 20 years it took to win the 2nd. Tom Dundon, new Trail Blazers owner, built a team to surprise the NHL. (37:20) Review: Miss You Love You. (42:00) NPPOD. (43:00) UFC Freedom 250 took place on Sunday. Did you watch? A celebration for America? Sure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you. Concrete Jungle.
0:40.3	That's nothing personal word of the day.
0:42.3	It's Monday, June 15th,
0:45.3	2026.
0:47.3	It happened.
0:49.3	It is 2026.
0:51.3	The 53-year wait is over for all New York Nick fans. There is no better place to have
1:00.3	been this weekend than New York. Nick fans, like we're in the middle of the set of Major
1:09.8	League, the movie walking by each other.
1:12.7	I wasn't wearing any Nick stuff, but everybody else was.
1:16.1	And everyone's talking to everyone, thinking, this is the city, the greatest city in the world.
1:23.0	This won't be the place where a championship gets won, and people are stabbing and killing each other. No, no, this is the place where a championship gets won and people are stabbing and killing each other.
1:29.5	No, no.
1:30.3	This is the place where everyone's high-fiving and looking with smiles.
1:34.7	I was walking past people on Sunday.
1:39.7	And I was saying, do you know how lucky you are and you?
1:47.1	It wasn't creepy, but I was certainly talking to like teenagers who I saw wearing Brunson jerseys and OG jerseys.
1:54.2	I saw a Hardaway junior jersey, not sure why. Not enough you in jerseys made me sad.
2:04.5	No Frasier jerseys whatsoever whatsoever but trying to explain to people the nicks just won a title the excitement on the streets let me organize a thought to you as a
2:16.9	person who was five years old when the next last one
2:20.3	when you come from a place New York hadn't had a title of any kind since 2012
2:26.3	that's 14 years and it's not like we've got all our eggs in one basket there are a
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