A little bit of everything on this February afternoon.

The NBA returns tonight.

Thank God.

The Nets will continue to try to tank.

And the New York Nix will get their final crack at the Detroit Pistons in the regular season.

More on that game as this show goes on.

But I think the Knicks are kind of simple as we enter the second half of this season.

They got to get to the NBA finals. Like I think it Knicks are kind of simple as we enter the second half of this season. They got to get to the NBA finals.

Like I think it's a consensus among Nick fans that anything less than that, losing in the conference finals, losing in the semifinals, it would be considered a massive disappointment.

And I think it's straightforward.

Now, I can argue it and say they got to win a title.

You can go even further than that, especially knowing Jalen Brunson wants the Knicks to scratch his back back for the discount he gave them a couple of years ago.

So I could totally buy the Nick fan taking it a step further saying, no, the finals aren't enough. The window won't be open forever.

We have to win a championship.

But I think that they are one of the most straightforward teams in this town in terms of what's

a success.

Yeah.

And that is they got to go further than last year and get to the NBA finals.

Right.

It's the expectation that that has been there, that they've been building towards that

Leon Rose has carefully and sometimes

quietly because he doesn't talk about this made steps to make this team an NBA champion.

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