Jun 22, 2026 · 24 min · 10 segments
Welcome back to a special sports edition of the NerdGen Report! This week, Pablo and Brian celebrate the impossible: The New York Knicks are finally your NBA Champions! We break down their historic…
But how they did it, Brian, let's talk about this series, Antonio, real quick, specifically, because we've talked about what they did in the Eastern Conference, which they obliterated.
Something turned on and they began playing in this, what they call now, flow state.
That no matter how many timeouts you had, it didn't matter because they kept on going.
It was stunning.
I
mean, that's the thing.
there's so much Hollywood in this run.
There's so many things that if you like, I think about like watching like Hoosiers back in the day, you can kind of laugh because in that movie, like I don't, I think Jimmy Chitwood misses like one shot entire film.
And it felt like the Knicks after game three of the Hawk series entered that kind of phase where it was like, OG and OB didn't miss.
Like, these guys were shooting percentages where you're like, that'd be good in a pickup game, right? That'd be good at your local Y.
And it's like, that's why I say, like, there's really no team like them.
And that's why it felt so weird as a Knicks fan where it's like, you're used to, all right, we got a, we got a lunch pail and bootstrap up and, you know, outlast the heat, outlast the old Indiana Pacers from back in the day and slog our way to some 92-90 victory.
And it's like, these guys put a foot on the throat of the opponent and just smashed it.
And that was like a, Wow.
I remember, like, I missed the beginning of that Hawks game, and I thought there was a mistake on my screen.
I was like, they can't be up by 50, like, in the first half.
Yeah.
But how they did it, Brian, let's talk about this series, Antonio, real quick, specifically, because we've talked about what they did in the Eastern Conference, which they obliterated.
Something turned on and they began playing in this, what they call now, flow state.
That no matter how many timeouts you had, it didn't matter because they kept on going.
It was stunning.
I
mean, that's the thing.
there's so much Hollywood in this run.
There's so many things that if you like, I think about like watching like Hoosiers back in the day, you can kind of laugh because in that movie, like I don't, I think Jimmy Chitwood misses like one shot entire film.
And it felt like the Knicks after game three of the Hawk series entered that kind of phase where it was like, OG and OB didn't miss.
Like, these guys were shooting percentages where you're like, that'd be good in a pickup game, right? That'd be good at your local Y.
And it's like, that's why I say, like, there's really no team like them.
And that's why it felt so weird as a Knicks fan where it's like, you're used to, all right, we got a, we got a lunch pail and bootstrap up and, you know, outlast the heat, outlast the old Indiana Pacers from back in the day and slog our way to some 92-90 victory.
And it's like, these guys put a foot on the throat of the opponent and just smashed it.
And that was like a, Wow.
I remember, like, I missed the beginning of that Hawks game, and I thought there was a mistake on my screen.
I was like, they can't be up by 50, like, in the first half.
Yeah.
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