The Knicks Hype is Real... But the Spurs Will Be 2026 NBA Champions
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, I.T. and C.J. catch up on the past week of playoff hoops: the Knicks continued their historic march to the Finals with a clean sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers on the backs of an incredibly balanced and poised roster. The Cavs got their hearts ripped out in Game 1 and just never really seemed to recover. And in the West, the Spurs v. OKC series has been just as incredible as anticipated. Role players like Jared McCain and Isaiah Hartenstein are stepping up big in close games, alongside monster performances from Wemby and SGA, and the coaching adjustments on both sides have been immaculate. What do the Cavs do next? Is this Knicks team for real? Who's going to come out on top in the West? We dig into all of these burning questions, plus we crack open I.T.'s closet door for another edition of Shoe and Tell, and we give flowers to Deuce McBride and Landry Shamet for holding down the New York bench throughout this Knicks run.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | I feel like the West is going to win the finals. And since early on, I've said the Spurs is going to win. So I'm going to just ride with that. But it's not going to be easy. It's not. No, people need to know. It's not hating to think another team is going to win. Not at all. we you know the Kn again, like, shout out to them for making those adjustments mid-playoffs, because that can be hard. That's hard. And CJ, and it's the garden. The lights is on. Yeah. It's time to perform. Everybody can't perform at that MSG when the world is watching. So we got to put that in consideration, too, whether it be the Thunder, whether it be the Spurs. Lights is different at MSG, fan. Yeah. I don't care who you are. I mean, that's why it is fun. Even though I'm not, as a fan, I'm not particularly rooting for the next, but man, it's exciting that we're going to have some finals games in MSG. |
| 0:54.3 | Like, that's a sports history right there. |
| 0:56.1 | I got to get out to NY for the final. |
| 0:58.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.4 | Maybe I could do some scouting there or something. |
| 1:01.7 | I think that's part of the job. |
| 1:03.1 | Those are the perks of the job. |
| 1:04.6 | Celtics, can I get some tickets for that, please? Welcome back to Welcome back to another episode of Point Game. |
| 1:32.2 | IT, man. |
| 1:33.4 | We are tied Spurs OKC-2, and the calves got swept. |
| 1:37.8 | We're going to break that down. |
| 1:39.0 | And we're, of course, going to do some more sneaker segments. |
| 1:41.5 | We just got a jam-packed episode here. |
| 1:43.2 | How are you feeling, man? |
| 1:44.3 | I'm good. Other than the calves,-packed episode here. How are you feeling, man? I'm good other than the calves not showing up, but I'm straight. Like, it's still basketball going on. |
| 1:51.0 | That's always good. We got a really tight series with the spurs and thunder. I'm disappointed. |
| 1:56.7 | I mean, we'll talk about all this. I'm disappointed in the Cavs, man. That hurt. |
| 2:01.3 | Man, and so this is the downside of us doing the pod once a week is, man, things change fast. Because I felt like, you know, I think we didn't think this was going to be. And we can start here with the Knicks Cavs series because a week ago, you know, I don't even know. Did we talk about how they came back in Blue Game 1, but we didn't think it was going to be a sweep like this? |
| 2:21.5 | Yeah. week ago, you know, I don't even know. Did we talk about how they came back in Blue Game 1, but we didn't think it was going to be a sweep like this. Yeah, I don't even know if we spoke about Game 1. We might have spoke before the series. That's how quick it happened. Like the morning up, the morning of, I think. And then I saw your tweet and I think everyone was sort of feeling it the same way. So let's go back to game one, because I think it was a perfect snapshot of what happened here. I think it was in the fourth. Early in the fourth, the calves were up by 22. And everyone, it felt like Donovan Mitchell. I remember the broadcast being like, and Donovan Mitchell gets to go and sleep in his own bed tonight. everyone's like oh yeah the cabs the rest and all that stuff with the like it's crazy to think |
| 2:56.2 | we're here four games later the nicks are on their way of the finals so let's even go back to that |
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