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Reflecting on the Knicks Championship Run

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4.48.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser discuss the Knicks, the Spurs, and the Hurricanes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Tony Kornheiser by lighting up the lives of our viewers. Oh, what? Nice. What do you think Lee Smith to think of that answer about electricity in your building? Did you got electricity in your building? No, I don't think... I don't know. That might have the greatest response of all times. Do you feel dejection? Do you want to do that on the air?

0:54.9

Yeah, I don't think so. Welcome to PTI, boys and girls, in today's episode. The Hurricanes win the Stanley Cup. The U.S. men beat Paraguay, and Spain gets shocked. The World Cup. Shocked. But we begin today with the NBA championship, which was settled on Saturday, when the Knicks won their third game in the

1:11.6

series in San Antonio and came back from yet another double-digit deficit and closed out the

1:18.0

championship in five games. Jalen Brunson scored 45 points for the Knicks 15 in the fourth quarter,

1:24.9

and once again, the Spurs froze when it counted most.

1:28.4

Wilbon, what was your reaction to what the Knicks did, how they did it, and what it means? Tom, they've done it so many times, and I sat there and seen it in person the previous four times, even in the game they lost. So by the time we get to game five, I'm fully expecting. It's like, there's, I'm not going to say there's no lead that the Spurs can't hold on to,

1:46.3

but it wasn't going to be 14 or 15, that wasn't it.

1:50.1

And then you knew the Knicks of a veteran nature about them, all of them.

1:55.3

They've been through this.

1:56.7

They've won to a point.

1:58.5

Those guys hadn't won.

2:19.7

A couple have been in the finals. McHale Bridges had been in the finals. You know, Carl Anthony Towns has been in a conference final. Jalen Brunson had been a concept conference final. But they were castoffs, their coach, cast off. They knew what it was like to scrap and be disappointed and come back and win. And so I'm expecting, yes, this is what the Knicks are made of.

2:23.8

And Jalen Brunson particularly, man, he's a leader.

2:25.6

There's a toughness about him.

2:27.1

Everything built to this.

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