Matt Barnes Reacts to Jalen Brunson & Mike Brown Proving Him Wrong
All The Smoke
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4.7 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The New York Knicks are headed to the NBA Finals… and Matt Barnes is giving credit where it’s due.
Matt opens the episode by breaking down how Jalen Brunson proved the doubters wrong, why Mike Brown changed everything in New York, and how the Knicks rebuilt themselves into a championship contender.
Then ESPN legend Kenny Mayne joins ATS Unplugged for an incredible conversation about the golden era of ESPN, working alongside Stuart Scott, unforgettable stories about Kobe Bryant and Ken Griffey Jr., playing football with Randall Cunningham at UNLV Rebels football, Seattle sports history, golf culture, and the future of media in the AI era.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome back to Unplug. |
| 0:05.6 | Today we got a good one for you. |
| 0:06.8 | I got longtime ESPN legend Kenny Main stopping by. |
| 0:10.4 | But before, let's shout out the New York Knicks. |
| 0:17.5 | The Knicks are going to the finals. |
| 0:20.2 | Went down 2.1 to the Haw, and there was some, you know, |
| 0:23.8 | some non-believers, but the true fans believed, and they just did a number on the calves, |
| 0:31.5 | swept the calves out the playoffs. |
| 0:34.5 | You know some funny shit I saw was, one, James Harden saying that he believed they saw had a better team, but two, Kenny Atkinson saying before game four that analytically, he said what they won two games, right? |
| 0:47.8 | Like, analytical. |
| 0:50.0 | Unbelievable. Absolutely nothing. That shit means nothing. And we had we had a meeting one night. |
| 0:57.5 | I think I was at this at gravitas during game one because I had a meeting that we were actually |
| 1:01.8 | watching the game too. And when they come back from what, down 24? |
| 1:06.2 | 22, I believe, with like seven or eight minutes left in the quarter. Unbelievable. |
| 1:13.3 | And that kind of shit can sink a ship. |
| 1:16.5 | And all those game won, like that kind of momentum is heavy. |
| 1:20.6 | So, man, I just want to congratulate it because I've said some things and I'm sure people have been wanting to point them out about this situation. |
| 1:24.5 | One, I think I said along with a lot of other people that didn't think that |
| 1:27.9 | Jaylon Brunson, a small guard can be the best player on a championship team. And although he's a |
| 1:35.4 | stocky small guard, he's proven that wrong. You know, although I said win a championship, they're there. |
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