Jun 1, 2026 · 43 min · 20 segments
The 2026 NBA Finals matchup is set as the New York Knicks take on the San Antonio Spurs. NBA betting experts Matt Moore and Joe Dellera went live on Action Network's YouTube page late Sunday night to…
Joe, as a lifelong diehard Knickerbockers fan, what is your confidence level the New York Knicks are gonna win the NBA title on a scale of one to five? One being not at all-
... we're gonna get worked, and five is we are absolutely 100% winning the title, Knicks in four, bing bong.
You caught me off guard 'cause I thought you were gonna say one to 10, and I was about to come out with like a seven.
I think, like, obviously you wish you didn't play either of the Thunder or the Spurs, but given the way the bracket was unfolding, I, I think you'd rather play the Spurs.
Granted, this injured, the super injured version of the ThunderSh- yeah, maybe you'd rather play that.
But there's no real guarantees, like, whether J-Dub is gonna play, is AJ Mitchell gonna play? Like, what is that gonna kind of, like, unfold into? And I do think that the Spurs do things to Oklahoma City that I don't know if the Knicks can do to Oklahoma City.
It's just the same way that Oklahoma City couldn't do things to the Spurs that I think that maybe New York can kind of bring and present some different problems there.
They've played basically only two games more than the minimum, so their rest of the team, outside of Mitchell Robinson having a broken hand, which is important, but I think that, I would imagine that he plays.
Return is usually a couple weeks, but he's just gonna try and play through it, which I've seen guys, look, John Wall play with a fractured wrist.
That's the craziest thing I have ever seen, is that a primary ball handler point guard-
Joe, as a lifelong diehard Knickerbockers fan, what is your confidence level the New York Knicks are gonna win the NBA title on a scale of one to five? One being not at all-
... we're gonna get worked, and five is we are absolutely 100% winning the title, Knicks in four, bing bong.
You caught me off guard 'cause I thought you were gonna say one to 10, and I was about to come out with like a seven.
I think, like, obviously you wish you didn't play either of the Thunder or the Spurs, but given the way the bracket was unfolding, I, I think you'd rather play the Spurs.
Granted, this injured, the super injured version of the ThunderSh- yeah, maybe you'd rather play that.
But there's no real guarantees, like, whether J-Dub is gonna play, is AJ Mitchell gonna play? Like, what is that gonna kind of, like, unfold into? And I do think that the Spurs do things to Oklahoma City that I don't know if the Knicks can do to Oklahoma City.
It's just the same way that Oklahoma City couldn't do things to the Spurs that I think that maybe New York can kind of bring and present some different problems there.
They've played basically only two games more than the minimum, so their rest of the team, outside of Mitchell Robinson having a broken hand, which is important, but I think that, I would imagine that he plays.
Return is usually a couple weeks, but he's just gonna try and play through it, which I've seen guys, look, John Wall play with a fractured wrist.
That's the craziest thing I have ever seen, is that a primary ball handler point guard-
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