The Knicks are in the NBA Finals, How did they get there?
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Jalen Brunson and the Knicks put the Cleveland Cavaliers away in four and head to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999. Fred Katz joins Dave DuFour and Zena Keita to discuss how the Knicks have dominated the Eastern Conference, the story on how they became a championship contender, and who the Knicks should want to play in the NBA Finals. They finish the show discussing what is going to happen to the Cavs this offseason and how they can change their roster moving forward.
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Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita and Fred Katz
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily for May 26, 2026. I'm Dave DeFore here with Zena Keda and Fred Katz coming up. |
| 0:08.2 | Bing Bong, the Knicks are in the finals. |
| 0:14.8 | Good morning, everybody. What's up guys, Fred? Sorry for yelling at you. |
| 0:18.9 | Go New York. Go New York. How about that? |
| 0:20.7 | Go New York. That's just. Go. Go New York. |
| 0:21.6 | Go. |
| 0:22.6 | That's just going to be ringing in my head for a while now. |
| 0:25.6 | Fred Katz is here live from Cleveland where the Knicks completed the sweep. |
| 0:31.6 | Really, it was only a three-game sweep because the Cavaliers just didn't show up to game four. |
| 0:36.6 | Fred, man, this next team is pretty good. |
| 0:40.4 | We were talking about a lineup change not that long ago. |
| 0:43.4 | And boy, do I look pretty silly now. |
| 0:48.3 | This team is unbelievable. |
| 0:50.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.8 | I mean, it's not hyperbole. |
| 0:53.9 | It's really not hyperbole. It's really not hyperbole. |
| 0:55.8 | This is whether they win or lose in the finals, |
| 0:59.7 | this is one of the great playoff runs of all time. |
| 1:04.5 | And that sounds like a wild thing to say about the Knicks and about a three seed, |
| 1:10.3 | which is like kind of too normal of a seed to be a Cinderella and too low of a seed to just be like they dominated everybody. |
| 1:20.8 | This team has won. |
| 1:21.8 | I understand the East is weak. |
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