[Highlight] The Cavaliers emptied their bench, with over 8 minutes remaining in the 4th quarter
The Knicks will complete the sweep in Cleveland and go up to the NBA Finals for the first time in 27 years!
We’re actually going to the fucking finals dude
Used to pray for times like this
Used to only be able to imagine times like this.
First time since I was 3 years old
For the first time in my life
Hell yeah. I’m 30 years old and I hope I don’t have to wait another 27 years to go again
27 I was 3 months old 😭
You youngsters piss me off because you make me feel old..
I remember it like it was yesterday… I was visiting home in San Antonio from college, so pumped to see my Spurs finally win it all. I came home and my mother, who never watched sports a day in her life was sitting in front of the screen watching the game. As I was kicking off my shoes she looks over and says “Why do the Spurs all look like nice young men but the Knicks look so mean?”
I’m just needing my Spurs to finish up in the next two games so we can all relive the 99 series again.. Just like last time, I hope!
(sorry y’all, but I like when history lines up…)
As I was kicking off my shoes she looks over and says “Why do the Spurs all look like nice young men but the Knicks look so mean?”
In fairness, Sprewell was only traded to the Knicks because he choked his coach on the Warriors for telling him to put more mustard on his passes in practice, lol.
Yeah.. It was definitely Sprewell and was talking about..
But you’ve got a team with David Robinson, Tim Duncan, Sean Elliot, Avery Johnson, Malik Rose.. like I get it.. They were pretty ‘family friendly’
I was 4
30 year old Knicks fans unite my boy!
What is happening
Sharia Law working out well for NYC
This is what Ohio gets for voting for the Fanta Menace
It still doesn’t feel real. I’ve sat through soooo much terrible basketball in my years of fandom.
Am I about to be rooting for the Knicks??
Lol yup
And my man Patrick was there to witness it!!! I grew up watching Patrick Ewing. I fell in love with the Knicks because of him 😭
Go win the damn thing
FUCK YEAH! 😭
I’d love to see NYC win the championship.
I genuinely can’t believe it
Holy shit I’d hate/love to be in NY because it will going off right now. Been a long ass time.
Im walking on sunshine win or lose in the final we go down as one of the greatest playoff teams ever
Doesn’t feel real yet
Legitimately thought I might never live to see this day
chat is 35 points in 7 minutes doable
For one of these teams, yes
22 in 7 is
That’s cold bro, we already dead, at least analytically 🥲
Haha ouch
Only if the Knicks decide they want to clinch at home
Analytically doable yes
Analytically, yes
Yeah, replace the Cavs with last year’s Pacers, and you’ve got a relatively decent chance at a comeback.
If the Cavs employ 5 Aaron Nesmiths yes it’s analytically possible
If all of the Knicks players simultaneously agreed to lie on the ground and start attempting to photosynthesize for the rest of the game, the Cavs might have had a chance to come back and win
This looks like one of those Cavs teams LeBron dragged to the finals in his first stint but there’s no LeBron
Crazy thing is those teams were much worse
Yeah his final Cavs team was insanely bad, just how good prime Bron was.
2018 Bron was the most dominant playoff run I’ve ever seen.
2007 Bron(22years old) took a team with Daniel Gibson and Drew Gooden as 2ed and 3rd options to the finals.
it took the fully operational death star spurs to beat em.
also the 2011 dallas dirk’s, was the most dominant/impressive playoff run ever. Dude ran though 10 Hall of Famers between players and coaches(11 depending on how you feel about Aldridge) with his second being jason terry and his 3rd being 37year old jason kid. will never be topped.
How are you forgetting LeBrons 3-1 comeback against the best ever regular season Warriors?
Also shows how, and this isn’t meant to diss LeBron or delegitamize the carry job, bad the east was. The oladipo pacers and Kyrie celtics were his biggest obstacles. The celtics a year later probably win
Kyrie wasn’t even in the NBA when LeBron did his first stint in Cleveland.
Wasn’t even the Kyrie Celtics. He was injured. That Celtics team had Terry Rozier at point and took them to 7.
Lol the “Olidipo Pacers” is hilarious
The 2007 cavs team he took to the finals may be the worst team ever to make a finals. Outside of bron that team was bad.
Praying Booby Gibson would hit big shots
07 bron with this team instead of any 1 player goes to the finals.
This team with 07 Bron sweeps both OKC and Spurs.
So if you’re a Knick fan, you’re hoping the Spurs/OKC series goes 7 hard-fought, right? Cuz Cleveland looked exhausted this entire series.
Knicks have been playing too well for too long now to consider the finals a sweep or anything. Whoever comes out of the west is gonna be beat the hell up while NY is rested again. It should actually be a very fun finals
The finals are more spaced out, plus the Knicks were rusty game one. Might not even help tbh.
True, the West is guaranteed at least a 4 day break and they’ll have home court.
That said, I don’t know if you could be more confident if you’re the Knicks right now. They couldn’t have played better.
Probably not, but im looking for any advantage we can get, both teams are tough as hell.
We will be so dead we’ll have no choice but to merge into one OklaTonio City Spunder just to field a team representative of the West
In rooting for you guys personally, prefer a ethical basketball team plus we’ve had some bangers this season. Also I can hope your youth plays against you.
I hope so too, because that way Jeremy Sochan gets a ring no matter what
Sochan revenge series incoming.
The more games the more chance for injuries though, that makes a difference. JDub and Mitchell already out
They were rusty.
Only took one half to shake the rust off.
Correct
Yes I want Wembanyama
No u can’t have him he’s ours
I do too, but I don’t think Spurs would trade him to any team unless they knew about a career ending stuff that we don’t.
everyone said the same thing about Luka 🤷🏼♂️
It was career ending for Nico Harrison
Be careful what you wish for
Im hopping for revenge for my 3 month old self lmao
I don’t even think it matters because even if the WCF goes 7 they still get plenty of rest
Game 7 would be on May 30 and Finals start June 3, so it’d only be 3 days rest for the winner if it goes that long.
It’s more like four since the game isn’t until the afternoon
If that series goes to 7, the Spurs will be tied with the Cavs at 18 games played and the Thunder will have only played 15. I don’t see either of those young teams being as tired as the Cavs are right now.
Well it could also halt the momentum of knicks
Need to know if/when Jalen Williams and Ajay Mitchell are playing again. A quick end to the Spurs might be best for the Knicks if OKC plays a couple games without both of them.
That’s a good point
I would hope spurs in 7 if I was a ny fan, maybe Thunder depending on Ajay’s health
That was how I felt like, 3 weeks ago, but now I want the west to wrap it up already, I dont care who comes out of the west, we can run it.
I don’t really care what they do. We’re ready
START SPREADING THE NEWS
you know what they say suzyn
That’s…basketball? (how do you strike through)
like this
Lol Kenny and Shaqtin a fool.
LEAVEING TODAY �� I WANNA BE A PART OF IT
At least the Pistons are on the upswing, despite getting bounced…
…is this the end of the Cavs’ window as we know it?
Well just to correct you, there was never no window
The double negative piece
https://youtu.be/mJXj34VvyIY
Incredibly deep cut lol
You’re a fucking punk dude
That was a nasty line by you
Well just to correct you, you’re saying there was a window then?
Kids these days don’t know the legend of Tito Ortiz.
Yer a fuckin punk dude
Yep. Just develop Mobley and pray, not much else you can do.
Knew this was their last shot when they pushed for Harden.
We didn’t push for Harden, we got rid of Garland.
Mobley is not the piece to build around. He hit his ceiling last year. He was noticeably worse this year.
So you build around no one?
Realistically a rebuild would not be in the cards for us in the moment, only trading. We can’t go from a second apron team to tanking, we’ll be the worst team in the league for a decade.
Mobley is soft
Mobley and Allen being soft af never meant they had a window
If Allen is soft then what is Duren? Allen straight up took his lunch money in game 7.
If Koby Altman were smart, he’d be shopping ever single player on our roster for picks.
Unfortunately he isn’t, so we’re probably gonna run this shit back
Harden needs to go, Mobley probably needs to go, Allen is too hot and cold, Donovan Mitchell was the only person on this team who even bothered to care after the 1st half. The lack of defensensive effort this whole series has been insane dude.
To be fair, I’d give credit to Max Strus too. Seems like the main other player who actually tried during the series. But yeah it just feels like most of the team never recovered mentally from that game 1 fumble.
they don’t own their picks so they’re not going to completely blow it up
Tyler Kolek and Ariel Hukporti minutes to clinch the eastern conference finals
Kolek and Huk have more playoff minutes than Embiid
in the conference finals yes
Yeah, I should have clarified. Was too hype at the time!
lol imagine telling someone a year ago that Kolek and Hukporti would be closing out the ECF. Thibs really said “no days off” even for garbage time
The Cavs go from embarrassing Detroit in game 7 to getting swept in embarrassing fashion. Life comes at you fast
man how bad was orlando
15 Pointe in the second half bad
Ahem, it was 19 and Franz got hurt. Ignore the multiple second half collapses after being up 3-1.
I cannot believe you scored 12 points in a half
How can you say they were embarrassed? They still have those timeouts!
And were great analytically!
This is unreal
Win or lose, New York will be in the ocean this time in 2 weeks
Ignorance
Lmao imagine the Hudson River getting absolutely packed with fans if they actually win it all
The Cavs need someone that can set the tone. Donovan can be the best player but he obviously can’t be a tone setter
VERY Doubtful that donovan can be the best player on a championship squad.
Great player, but hes not in that tier.
Truly feel like that is proven by this point…
Him and booker both feel to me like their in a weird place between tier 1 and tier 2 players, and their have been times where ive thought both of them might be the best active players at their positions.
Is just so damn hard to win a championship as the best player and just be a scorer. You have to be transcendental (like Curry)
Why don’t all the stars just meditate? Are they stupid?
The fact that Brunson hasn’t played a minute in three closeout games is crazy
You mean in the 4th quarter of those games
Kenny is cooked
wonder if he’ll even have his job in the morning
Analytically he will
Ofc I’m looking way ahead but as a Spurs fan, a rematch would be awesome. If we lose, I’d throw my support behind the Knicks
Analytically not over yet
THIS FEELS LIKE A DREAM WTF IS HAPPENING
I’m not even mad at our series anymore good series Knicks
2-2 analytically tho
Sim to next season
I used to watch the Knicks with my grandma. We would talk about the Knicks all the time. I wish she was alive so she could see this and we could talk about it. I miss her so much.
I really don’t get people that think the Knicks have zero chance vs the Spurs/Thunder. Not quarantine they win, but I think it’s going to be a 6 or 7 game series.
The Thunder without Dub and Mitchell are probably worse than the Knicks.
The Spurs are young and have a worse bench.
Knicks have a great chance to finish the job.
Yeah Thunder look very one dimensional without a second ball handler, especially if their spot up shooters aren’t hitting anything. But there is no guarantee they will even be out the rest of this series, let alone for the finals
I think Knicks got a decent chance against both teams tbh, especially if OKC is still missing Ajay and Jdub by the finals or suffer more injuries.
We’re used to this by now. Happens 2 games every series
Mitchell robinson and josh hart treated mobley and allen like high schoolers on the glass all series donovan mitchell looked like he wanted to jump into the knicks bench just to feel what a real system feels like absolute demolition
At least we ain’t the only team the Knicks swept lmaooo
Cavalitically 2-2
Damn, I’m feeling way better about how the Hawks did
Knicks hope Okc vs Spurs us a bloodbath and goes 7 games
What a time to be alive
Did anyone on the Cavs go shake hands with everyone on the Knicks? I need to rant about that player if he did.
most of them did
Danhausen is goated
Haha the comment I was looking for
Knicks in 6! Knicks in 6
I’m happy for New York fr
How’s NY? Is anyone fine?
IVE NEVER SEEN MY KNICKS IN THE FINALS. I LOVE MY KNICKS IN EVERY WAYYY. NY CLEARS EVERY CITY EVER
Harden with yet another game with more turnovers than field goals (More turnovers than field goals and assists combined)
I love you all
Raptors Alumni going to the finals for a second straight year. Love to see it.
I’m happy for New York man. Yall deserve it
Feel bad for New York if Knicks win it all lol
Let’s goooo!!!
I’m not a fan of either team, I was just hoping to watch a good game with one of the teams facing elimination.
It was over by the half.
It’s like raaaaeeeeaaaane
This run puts Brunson above Darren Watkins Jr.
I gotta say, I’m pretty happy about this year’s East champs. Definitely rooting for the Knickerbockers against whoever comes outta the west.
It would be nice if Cavs could win one at home and let the Knicks finish in NY
Does Kenny get fired?
100%
After game 1, anything short of winning the series sealed it, imo. But getting swept definitely did him no favors
ahhhh dammit I guess this is pretty cool
other side is rainbows and sunshine while the other is bombs and murder
Fire Kenny Atkinson into the sun
Analytically though
Don’t forget the Spurs were against the Knicks in the finals 27 years ago.
27
This is an insult to the Cavs logo that LeBron played with in the 2000s
The Knicks being good is great for the NBA. And so is Wemby. Fingers crossed for a ‘99 rematch
Glad to see KAT get his shot at the finals!
Truly never imagined this would happen in my lifetime. I’m floating
There’s must be something special about the 8 minute mark. Ask Ant-Man!
Cavs have to hire a new coach after reaching ECF. Wow.
To be fair, we did the exact same thing last year
I’m emotional. Wow
I can’t win with this Cavs team 🤦🏿
8.5 minutes left? You serious?
That’s way too early to give up.
I absolutely cannot stand the Knicks, but if you guys end up facing OKC in the finals, then I really hope you pound them into the ground. Make SGA feel every foul he plans to flop on. I’d be rooting for you to uphold the integrity of basketball.
And if you’re playing the Spurs, well, hopefully they sweep you guys. 😘
DanHausen curse actually worked…..in real life.
The New York Knicks are going to the finals for the first time since Stephen A Smith claimed he was a diehard Knicks fan.
I was 12, happiest I’ve been as a Knicks fan, as an adult
Kenny needed the starters to help pack his bags