Hello and welcome to the NBA Daily.

I'm Dave DeFore.

This is Esperi Henni, Zena Kato.

We are live right after the Nix captured the 2025 NBA Cup championship.

It just means more, guys.

Absolutely.

And actually, look, I want to start with the finish of the game, the celebration by the Knicks. It did seem like it meant a lot to them.

Mike Brown giving a shout out to the fact that full of Knicks fans in this crowd, who acted like this game mattered a lot.

The players celebrated like it mattered quite a bit.

And they played like this game meant something.

I thought Mike Brown's point after the game,

anytime you can be the last team standing, no matter what.

You can't act like it doesn't mean it.

Yeah, exactly.

Look, this is a team that hasn't won a thing since 1973.

Oh, their fans needed something.

And this is why the cup is good.

This is exactly why the cup is actually important because it gives teams that even though the Knicks have contending hopes and championship aspirations, you get something else that you can win.

That's why that was awesome.

I love the cat was really into it as well.

He was animated.

It's good when guys care about it. Yeah. It was a genuine rush out onto the court when they won. I mean, I would have loved them. They did the like the La Liga. But they didn't swing. They didn't swing the trophy. They should have done that. More practice required. Yeah, Dennis Schroeder can help them, you know, with that. but in general, I just loved the fact that they were genuinely excited. Yeah, Jalen Brunson,

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