If they can beat OKC for the championship I think we can all agree that OKC was also a fraud and every NBA team actually sucks.

Hawks are the best team since the All Star Break. Sixers aren’t the Hawks, they just beat the favorites. Cavs aren’t the Sixers, they just beat the 1 seed.

The Hawks were the hot upset pick and won two games against them before losing: Mid! 

Sixers vs Knicks was called the real ECFs and then the Knicks swept and instead of talking up the Knicks, everyone shit on the Sixers. 

The Cavs weren’t actually as highly thought of; most people thought the Knicks would probably win this I feel like, but they were still seen as a decent team at least. 

The Knicks are truly just a good team. Meanwhile the Thunder beat the Suns and the Luka-less Lakers, while the Spurs beat the Blazers and the banged up T-Wolves, and nobody holds that against them. Really good teams handle the competition in front of them, and so far all three have.

The championship will be a fine reward for the disrespect.

Pick the team to beat the Knicks and then decide the team sucks once the Knicks take belt to ass.

I like how they keep moving the goal posts.

Yeah whatever bro, who is going to guard Maxey and Embiid?

I am rooting for the Thunder but even before this game the Knicks made it clear the west finals are most definitely not the finals and people need to wake up. With the injuries plaguing the teams in the west in so close to thinking you should be favoured.

It’s exactly what happened when the Lakers won in the Bubble.

POR was supposedly “one of the most dangerous 8 seeds in history.”

Then it was HOU. Dangerous 4 seed and a better offensive team.

Then DEN was the more complete team.

And then MIA was going to out hustle them.

Eventually all 14 playoff teams with the exception of the Knicks and their favorite team will suck 😂

Very standard Knicks Hater gimmick that always results in the Knicks winning.

They never learn.

I have to admit, it is honestly just kind of tough to gauge how the Knicks are going to measure up in the final, but I am definitely not counting them out if they get there.

I don’t give af, they could argue Strength of Schedule while the Knicks are at their parade.

« Secretly »? I don’t think anyone believed the Cavs, the Sixers and the Hawks were dangerous going into the post season.

Just gotta prove them wrong

It’s no secret with us. We don’t even have a bench.

If the Thunder make it to the finals, I wish they could’ve played a team that I wouldn’t mind losing.

I hated that we had to beat the Pacers last year (hated it a bit less mid-series with all the contempt towards OKC), and I’d hate if we had to beat the Knicks too as you guys have suffered for so long.

Hey nothing wrong with that. Give me 5 years of 29 sucky teams except Toronto pretty please. 

Welcome to being a Cavs fan 2015-2018

Yeah the Hawks and Sixers are powerhouses 😤😤

Ya I thought the 76ers were good and had a good lineup before they played them. Now they suck

They do all kind of suck though. They’ve had an exceptionally easy path so far. Still impressive though

It’s “Bill Russell played against milkmen” but in 2026

Yeah so many people were high on the playoff Hawks, playoff Sixers, and playoff Cavs before lmao

Nobody secretly waited to say these teams sucked cuz the Knicks beat them, two of them have been memed for losing in the playoffs for like 5 years lmao

Insane victim complex

The Knicks are getting the New England Patriots treatment from this last super bowl, and the Seahawks ended up stomping them so hard. I hope to god this is not a similar scenario.

I am pretty sure everyone has said the east sucks the entire year bucko

I’ll be honest I was never particularly impressed with Atalanta but I’ve been impressed by your results since

we saw the “no pacers this year” sign and cruised through

More like losing 2 games in a row to the Hawks

Yeah, made us fire Thibs so we could get a modern coach

The something = beating a bunch of shitty teams in the East

OKC without J-Dub and Ajay Mitchell are absolutely beatable.

People writing off the Knicks like the Thunder aren’t going to be limping into the Finals, whereas the Knicks will be well rested and healthy.

Knicks need every edge they can get, but they can absolutely win, if they have the right game plan.

Right and if the spurs get there they’ll be beat up and exhausted. They’re a young team and that wall is coming. OKC will be an entertaining series at a minimum and I could totally see the Knicks pulling it off.

I predict the next piece of shade would be if the Knicks win the finals it’s because the refs were being very easy on blowing the whistle in their favor.

The hawks *did* give the Knicks fits. They were pretty annoyingly good until adjustments were made

Who TF is saying the 76ers were good? Embiid always breaks down

That being said, this Knicks team is absolutely rolling and I think they can legitimately win the title, especially if the WCF keeps beating both teams up

The Celtics team didn’t have Tatum in g7…

Yeah I saw the title at over 180 was like damn…then their actual spot at +234 hit me. That’s crazy. I was assuming they’d probably get walked in the Final regardless but that is a super impressive number and now idk

the one that my conspiracy theorist showed me said lakers win. go figure lmao 

anything to discredit jalen brunson

If the Knicks were mid, they’d be squeaking by.

They’ve been straight up pummeling teams for a month now.

There’s some crazy stat like the Knicks currently have the highest point differential over a 9 or 10 game span in NBA history, regular season or playoffs. Think of all the legendary elite teams there have been over the decades, and now think that none of them managed to be this dominant over a ~10 game span even many of those involved playing playing 3-4 bottom feeders in a row in March, let alone dangerous teams in the playoffs. So even if you do take the position that the opposition has been “very bad,” what the Knicks have been doing is still historic.

Knicks are probably the 2nd or 3rd best team in the nba. They def aren’t this dominant but at the same time their opponents aren’t bad, just not particularly great.

And the rest of the WC is ass outside of OKC and maybe SA so it all evens out

This narrative is the dumbest thing ever. Hawks were supposed to give us fits. Sixers were the best team in the East. Cavs are ready to play for a chip. This is what analysts were saying and now bums like you are saying ah well these teams are just bad. No fam. The Knicks are making these teams look bad by how great they are playing.

You do realize that one of the teams on that list may be the ones to meet the Knicks in the finals right? And they just so happen to also be the defending champions. Just thought I’d point that out to you lol.

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it’s Knicks ²³⁴⁄₁₃ = 18.000

Stronger competition in what sense

Cavs would unironically be the 2nd or 3rd seed in the West. Hate to break it to you.

You think this is a result of the whistle? Damn, must be Knicks-lakers then right? 

such a delusional take lmao

It’s always some excuse one after the other.

Before the playoffs started, Atlanta was looked at very differently. They were one of the hottest teams in the league, 20-6 post all star break with one of the best net ratings. It wasn’t until they lost by 50 that they were considered weak.

And the Sixers just completed a 3-1 comeback against the #2 seed. The Knicks were the favorites, but it was close. ESPN had 7 thinking the Knicks would win and 4 thinking the Sixers would win. CBS had it at 4 to 3. No one thought it’d be a dominant sweep the way it was.

This is the strongest eastern conference since 2 seasons ago and still better than the 2010’s and 2000’s. That’s a lazy cop out

Even if this is true what is a good team supposed to do besides steamroll them (as the Knicks have been doing)