Good morning, and welcome to the No Dunks podcast on the Athletic Network.

It's Friday, May 2nd, 2025.

This is the drop.

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Ash filling in for JD, who is already on a plane to Montreal, to Maddie O's big wedding.

We're all headed to Montreal this weekend.

For Maddie O and Jill's wedding, we are pumped. No show on Monday because of that. But we got lots here today to talk about before we get on a plane ourselves. We're going to preview and predict the Celtics Knicks second round series. And we'll end with some rapid fire fun because it is Friday. It is the drop. But first, my God, what a game, Tasmelis, Jalen Brunson,

scoring 40 as the Knicks topped the Pistons 116, 113 in game six to advance. And again,

we'll get into the Celtics Nix series later, but let's talk about this game. Let's talk about

the scrappy Pistons. What an ending. Yeah, what an entire game.

I think fans in Little Caesar's Arena have to lead the league in heart attacks per fan.

That is, it's ridiculous. The roller coaster that that particular game took where the Knicks won

the first quarter 3723. But here come the Pistons. They win the second quarter of 3822. Then the Knicks, thanks to doing layup lines after halftime, won their first third quarter of the season, 37 to 24. And then here come the Pistons. And a game they should have won. They win the fourth quarter, 2820. Four straight games in this series decided by three points or fewer.

Three in Little Caesar's Arena.

That's the first time in a playoff series that that's happened in 43 freaking years.

It's 44 years, I guess.

It's as old as some of us here on this show.

That's the last time that those close games happened.

It's pretty bonkers.

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