Knicks Make History, World Cup Chaos and Audience Q&A

All right.

This is episode two of On the Call with Jake Marsh.

And we have to start this episode off with the New York Knickerbockers.

Folks, they did it.

53 years later, the New York Knicks are champions of the National Basketball Association.

It was just an incredible run by an incredible team.

It's not often that you see a team's biggest piece of adversity come in the first round.

And that's what happened with New York when they played the Atlanta Hawks.

But after that, sweep, sweep, Knicks in five, eventually hoisting Larry O'Dryan trophy over the weekend down in San Antonio.

And I think I'm about to present some stats to you that might either blow your mind or you might shrug or...

Whatever.

But I thought they were interesting.

Let's start off with one I saw from Roger Sherman on X.

And he said, craziest stat for me.

The Knicks had the number one, number three, and number five biggest comeback wins in NBA finals history.

All in the same finals.

Folks, when you're watching sports, I feel like one of the main reasons why people watch sports are to find out what's going to happen.

You don't know what's going to happen.

In this NBA Finals...

In the games the Knicks came back and won, it felt like we all knew what was going to happen.

A lot of these games had very similar scripts, right? Spurs dominate the first quarter.

Do the Knicks have what it takes to compete on this big stage? Are the lights too bright for them? Knicks chip away into halftime.

Back and forth in the third quarter.

Spurs take a little bit of a lead in the fourth.

And then...