The New York Knicks and the player's four seed.

First round, home court advantage.

Plus death versus LeBron in the first round.

Oh, your boy is back.

I'm ready.

The vacation is over.

Y'all see the tan, by the way, it's kind of small.

I should say so myself.

Oh yeah!

It's time!

That is a newly tanned, Stephen A. Smith,

the often imitated but never duplicated host and meme and soap opera guest star,

who also happens to be the most famous Knicks fan at ESPN.

Today, a sit-down about the NBA play-in and criticism and things of that nature.

With a man who has stronger feelings about Madison Square Garden,

then you may have about, well, anything. I'm Pablo Torre. It's

Tuesday, May 18th. This is ESPN Daily. Presented by UKG. Our purpose is people.

Stephen A. Smith, we have worked together out of ESPN's offices in Lower Manhattan for years now, and I want to admit something.

I haven't always been the most sensitive co-worker when it comes to your Nick's fandom.

Like, I want people to know this. We worked in a newsroom where we would sit outside the studio where you would do your radio show and there was a glass window and we would hear you through the wall so much so that I would just sometimes walk over and like laugh in your face through the glass.

And then that damn Pablo out there with Bumani, he's standing in the hallway laughing at me too.

This is not funny.

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