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All rise, Aaron Judge, with a home run, and it's still a 6-1 ballgame, Rangers with the lead.

But the best right-handed hitter maybe I've seen in my lifetime just went deep to give the Yankees their first run of that game. As we are done with that inning, we go to the top of the seventh inning. Rangers with the lead, six to one, plenty of baseball to update you on throughout the night. We've got hockey as well as we've got a game currently going on, and's been a high scoring affair. Buffalo leads Montreal 4 to 2, end of two. And we await the start of the ducks and the Golden Knights in about 40 minutes where VGK is a minus 166 favorite and Anaheim's plus 140. More on that later on this hour, including a preview of the Spurs and the T-Wolves. We'll get to that and more with our next guest as well. He is David Shepard. You can hear him on Sirius XM NBA Radio's post-game show tonight following the conclusion of the Spurs and T-Wolves game two. And he joins Will and myself now here on Vieson primetime to look at the NBA postseason. Just like you drew it up, Shep, no Joel Embed,

no problem for the Sixers. We're all tied up, 80 apiece right now in the third quarter. We've got

424 to go in the frame. Actually, Philly's up 8180. And the Knicks are still five and a half

point favorites. What are you seeing from the Sixers without Mb that you like tonight?

Yeah, it's a fair question, obviously, Sweetwell, and thanks for having me.

Tyrese Maxey is playing a lot more confident than the way he played in game number one.

Dem Bona had six offensive rebounds in that first half more than the entire Knicks squad combined.

What that tells me is the Philadelphia 76ers realize this is the game to steal because the Knicks are coming into game two after a 39 point beat down against the Philadelphia 76ers in game one.

And they're playing with all the confidence in the world, the New York Knicks.

And really, you know, they're thinking they're going to breeze through this one because you don't have the big fella, you don't have the 2023 regular season MVP, you lost by 39 with the 2023 regular season MVP.

But this is where Philly sneaks up on them.

And that's exactly what they did in that first half, taking that one point lead into halftime. Tyreys Maxie has been a completely different player in game number two. Vijay Edgecom hitting that big three late in the first half, I think gave him confidence. PG-13 continues to look like the PG-13 of the 2019 Oklahoma City Thunder, the way he's looked in the playoffs. And this is a felony team that understands if there is a game to take, it is game number two because you knew the Knicks would do this, Sweet. You knew the Knicks would come into game number two, completely complacent, and not with that sense of urgency and intensity. And as we all know, they're the most talented team in the Eastern Conference, but they are not the most hungry and certainly not the most mentally tough.

And that's what we are bearing witness to on this particular Wednesday night.

David, before the series, I was kind of torn between Nixon 6, Nixon 7.

I ultimately landed on Nixon 6 after game 1.

I thought, you know what, maybe now Nixon 5 or 6.

What was your prediction or kind of mental prediction if you didn't make one on record? six after game one. I thought, you know what, maybe now Knicks in five or six.

What was your prediction or kind of mental prediction if you didn't make one on record before the series? And now that we've seen a game and a half of basketball here, what would you revise

it to, if anything? Yeah. So will the Knicks without question have the most talent in the East?

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