S4 E9 NY Knicks Are NBA Champions!

Segment 1: The chronology of a championship (starts at 1:31) First title since 1973, one of the most dominant playoff runs in NBA history (15-3, 13 wins in a row) Leon Rose hired as head of basketball operations as the architect in March, 2020 Signed Jalen Brunson as a free agent, traded for Josh Hart from the TrailBlazers, OG Anunoby arrived from Toronto (trade), traded 5 No. 1 picks -- 4 wasn't enough? -- for Mikal Bridges, fired head coach Tom Thibodeau, hired Mike Brown, final piece of championship piece was the trade for Karl-Anthony Towns You could call this team the (Villa)nova Knicks (Brunson, Hart and Bridges played together at Villanova and won two NCAA championships...Brunson and Bridges 2, Hart 1) Segment 2: Thoughts on Game 5, Series (14:03) Spurs have great talent and a very bright future Expect Wemby to get bigger, stronger and better conditioned, needs to make better shot selections Horrific, one-sided officiating throughout the series, protecting Wemby Wemby committed some fouls that would be considered a penalty in hockey, obvious flagrant fouls not called so he would not miss a game (another flagrant and he would have served a one game suspension) Spurs the more talented team, but the best player/closer on the floor was Jalen Brunson (45 points in Game 5, most in franchise history in the NBA Finals) San Antonio still learning how to win, how to close games Not one player hit two consecutive free throws in the last two minutes Wemby went 44-104 from the floor, and 9-33 from downtown in the series Rinse, lather, repeat: each game Spurs built a lead and the Knicks chipped away and found ways to win Basketball IQ: Brunson drew several fouls when shooting 3s by using fakes, led to many free throws Emotional moment after the game: Brunson hugging his father (Knicks assistant coach) "Tired legs can't hit jumpers" Knicks won all four series clinching games on the road Savor the only Knicks championship in many fan's lives so far  Segment 3: Wemby Post Game Remarks (30:00) Wemby sound bite