Spurs and Knicks become the first team to play for both the NBA Cup Finals and NBA Finals in the same season!
This is also the 1999 NBA Finals rematch. The Spurs are probably one of the youngest teams to ever make it to the NBA finals.
This just added credence to the NBA cup
Lakers were motivated AF that first year. NBA cup winner will still go on these people’s wiki pages, it’s like half a ring
Those medals they give out are still championship jewelry. It’s something you can rest your legacy on a bit so guys like Dame who won the NBA cup but not the finals can separate themselves from other HoF caliber players that never won a trophy/championship
It’ll take another 10-20 years but eventually NBA cup champions will have much more credence
Exactly, right now no one cares as much because the cup has no history. With time, and as we hear more players add “#times NBA cup champion” to their resume, it will be more significant.
But because we don’t care yet, can can dub that trifecta the triple clown
I always told my friends that it’ll start to matter when someone wins the NBA treble: regular season, finals, and NBA cup
This year will really kickstart some legitimacy talks behind it thanks to this Finals matchup
It’s like 1⁄4 of a ring but it’s still worth something. It’s probably equivalent to like 2 all star appearances (for the stars carrying the teams at least)
Please name a player who would rather win 5 NBA cups than 1 championship…
Nobody. It’s like MVP shares, getting .25 MVP shares 4 times doesn’t mean you’ve won an MVP.
That doesn’t mean that it’s worthless though
Yeah that’s my point. It’s not worthless, but it’s waaaay less than .25 championships.
I don’t think any player would trade their first championship win for any amount of NBA cup wins. But would they rather have 5 cup wins or their second championship win?
Salute
I might be the majority but I do not mind adding that to someone’s legacy it has a cool ring to it
Yeah that 23 lakers team was really good. I do wonder if they perhaps go further if they had JJ in 24
Ask any player how many NBA Cups they’d trade for a championship. It’ll be a lot more than two. For most it will be infinite.
Adam Silver with the 8-dimensional Zimbabwean backgammon level thinking, everyone thought the plan was to get OKC to the finals when it was really to boost the credibility of his commissioner pet-project, the NBA cup.
He must be so happy. Wemby and the Knicks in the championship is basically the ideal for the league.
Probably the second best case scenario besides lakers knicks
Third best behind lakers-lakers.
I really hope this kills the OKC conspiracies. The league aint tryna rig the game for fucking Oklahoma
I know right? Same with nfl people saying chiefs. Like no, it’s Kansas City lol
They’re not, but leagues love dynasties. They drive engagement in all sports.
By making an expansion team a dynasty it would help raise more interest in Seattle and Las Vegas from investors
Basically what the Knights did in hockey
As the integrity of the sport crumbles around Adam silver, he reaches out his long alien-ass hand, clutches a replica NBA Cup trophy, bring it to his chest in a loving embrace
In his heart, he knows. He was the best sports commissioner that ever did commission a sport
Every team that has played in a Cup Finals game has made or won the finals in the 2020s
Great news for UAE
It really did. It’s almost equivalent to winning a conference finals. NBA cup is legit not a mickey mouse championship after all.
If the knicks win, get ready for “ring + cup = greatest season ever” argument
I guess, but I keep forgetting it exists so I can’t say I’m onboard with it mattering at all yet.
All kidding aside I have really enjoyed the cup games. I think the tourney is great and both teams played their asses off in that game and it was a ton of fun.
1999 rematch! Battle of the ages!
Oh shit and the Knicks are without Ewing again
Not so fast he’s been traveling with the team might have an extra jersey
Ewing with a Knicks 1-day contract confirmed.
Put him on the team but don’t play him to get the Ewing theory effect.
This is gonna mean so much to him if we avenge 1999
Dude it would make up for all the 90’s short comes, well to some
It would make up for everything! The latter days of the 70s, the dark days of the 80s, the heartbreak in the 90s, the dark days of the 2000s and 2010s, and even the heartbreak of playoff losses this decade so far.
Give us this one championship and we will cherish like crazy.
Whenever the wolves trade a foundational player/star they end up getting a championship immediately/almost immediately.
KG
Kevin Love
Andrew Wiggins
KAT?
Just saying…
Give us this one championship
No
THEN WE’LL HAVE TO TAKE IT
I think he’ll be courtside!
We got him back, but sadly, he’s been permanently relegated to the bench
Mitchell Robinson’s hand is Ewing’s knees
Wemby and Kornet the new Twin Towers?
Wemby and Kornet vs KAT and Mitch gonna be fun
Biyombo would like to join!
Sure and Hukporti while we’re at it
Plumlee 🤔
Olynyk legacy game incoming.
Mike Brown against the Spurs again.
Hopefully history will repeat itself.
Rooting for a competitive 7 game series this time around. Whichever team wins would be most deserving, no doubt
Allan Houston was my favorite player back then so maybe a little bit of me wants the Knicks to get some revenge.
Fuck that Knicks in 5
I became a fan of the Spurs in that 1999 run. I hope the basketball gods give us a similar result for nostalgia’s sake.
And just like that the NBA Cup got the credibility it needed
Knicks with the chance to do the first double in NBA history
I’m gonna say triple in this case because they also won the east, but it could be the quad or 5x if they had best record in the east or nba. I think that would be epic one day.
If the NBA was smart they’d be screaming “do the Knicks do the double?” from the rooftops
I barely heard it mentioned during the broadcast. I’m surprised the NBA didn’t mandate “nba cup finals rematch” as the line for when time expired.
Give it 2 days
I’ve been using that term for a few months ‘Knicks can pull the first NBA double’ and yeah I’m shocked it is not gaining purchase
We like the matchup with the spurs much better. Going against the Thunder and the refs would’ve been bullshit.
No guarantees though. Can’t get cocky now lol
Not at all. Looking forward to a great series of basketball against a great opponent. Hope for the best.
Series gonna be crazy, I’m hyper scared of your team
You should be. We beat you 3 times this year. But I’m sure your boys are pissed off and not gonna take it lying down.
Hey hey hey pal, that was twice thank you very much.
Though that March loss did feel like two losses in one
I’m still mad at them for ruining Christmas last season
Spurs fan, Glad to have a knicks vs spurs game….regardless of who wins, this is history in the making. Great for NBA and the teams involved. Let’s go!!!!
Respect. It’s personal with us for 1999. But I’m looking forward to a good series with a bunch of good teams that play ball. No foul baiting or cheating. May the better team win. Looking forward to seeing the court in San Antonio.
It’s going to be a great series, and hopefully without the refs bullshit.
Fr. And I have always liked the Spurs since I read David Robinson’s biography in 3rd grade, ironically in 1999. I don’t wanna hate you.
I honestly think I spent all my hatred in this series. Even if you guys beat us, I wouldn’t even mind as much, so long as it’s not OKC
Good luck bro lol, it’s like an ant picking which human they want to be stepped on by
Let’s hope for the same result as the Cup
Wemby tears vs another Knicks sweep. Honestly I’m conflicted
Me too honestly. Kinda want the Knicks to get it cause I feel Spurs about to go on a crazy run
I cannot comprehend how the fuck we are so good
Yall are scary man. I can’t believe how fucking good Harper is
Tall man good
Shaolin monks
My highest expectations for this season were that we would make the second round. We are so ahead of schedule.
Wemby is just too good. That’s how.
After the OKC-SAS series, I’m gonna breathing a LOT easier in this series as a neutral fan that hates OKC
Hell yeah man! I can’t wait for the finals now. Fucking pumped.
that’s so crazy that happened lol, wow
Wemby was suddenly in mourning back then though…
They’ve been vindicated
So did the former Kings who are in the finals.
Coach Brown vs Fox and Barnes, three individuals who were scapegoated at one point or another during their tenure with the team.
Now 1-2 years removed from leaving, they’re in the finals and contributing to contending teams while the team (and to an extent fans) that blamed them for a lot of the teams shortcomings post Beam Team are in one of the worst situations long term with no sign of improving.
Plus Halliburton last year
Plus (should have picked) Luka the year before lol
Knicks are playing against their experiment’s, Porzingis, updated and final version that has come to destroy humanity
i like Wemby 10000000x more than KP who forced is way off the team on his rookie contract
Buddy the Knicks were hot dog water he deserved every right to leave the team and the organization absolutely disrespected him.
How do you think KAT will match up against Wemby
He will pull Wemby out of the paint and open things up for Brunson. It will be a difficult match up I think.
Certified ball knower.
Sucks for him
There were reports for years and years that the Spurs FO was head over heels in love with Porzingis and wanted so badly to get him. (And there was something like a tampering controversy if I remember correctly.) But they never could swing a trade for him.
I like both of these teams. It’s gonna be a relaxing finals.
This season has saved the cup. Gives it so much credibility now
Even more so if the Knicks win, seeing celebration photos with both trophies will be so iconic
Best two teams in December = best two teams in June.
And Knicks have the better rounded team
No no we are humble underdogs bereft of talent shush
Facts, we always play better as underdogs. It’s when we are favored is when we usually blow it.
nonono you have the upper hand, my pleasure
You guys have been the overwhelming favorite in every playoff series you played so far and have been dominating teams. What are you talking about?
Celtics series last year, Pacers series last year. Underdogs = we won, favorites = we lost. I think they’re referring mostly to these
Which is weird because pound-for-pound I think you have a better team than the Spurs.
Eitherway, this is the first finals in a long time where I’ll be happy for whchever team wins (probably a little bit happier for the Spurs though, as a Celtics fan rooting for Kornet)
gtfo you were saying Cavs would smoke us
People saying LOL, like the Knicks haven’t had one of the most dominant playoff runs in recent memory. Yall got to stop underestimating the Knicks man.
Wisely said, fan of the 2nd best team in the East.
west coast bias, as if 3-8 in the west weren’t ass or injured
Spurs fan here…just glad to be in contention again and secondly..history in the making once again
Uh
The spurs don’t even have a real 4. It’s honestly insane we have done this well.
lol not
LMAO what? people really think this dogwater Knicks roster stands a chance against Wemby? lol be fr
lol
Win or lose, Sochan gets a ring. Don’t you just love this simple life hack?
Dawg Knicks are abt to turn the Empire State Building upside down
after they lit up in eagles colors and tweeted fly eagles fly that dumpster should be burned to the ground
New York is two weeks away from obtaining a nuclear weapon
Sophisticated basketball back on the menu lads~
Can’t wait for our unsophisticated play to whoop the spurs ass
Biggest validation for the NBA Cup in history.
Knicks should raise an NBA cup banner before the first home game.
Nah fuck that. Raise that and the champions banner at once or hang none at all.
THE BEST TWO TEAMS IN THE LEAGUE, LETS FUCKING GO SPURS
Time to do the double
This will be fun I like both teams
Agreed. Usually I dislike someone on a team, but nobody on either squad bugs (unlike most of OKC’s squad)
As a neutral whoever wins I’m happy for. I’m just glad OKC’s haramball is dead.
Weirdly, we match up really well against the Spurs.
This was the finals that I wanted. Most of the games between these two teams over the past few years have been amazing.
Man I know the Spurs just went through the Western conference gauntlet but I have a feeling Knicks gunna get the job done because of the breeze they went through in the eastern conference
It was only a breeze bc they are *that* good
For sure they a hell of a team, I guess is what I’m saying is the Spurs from the fandom majority is the favor to win that series but something tells me the Knicks might pull it off, didn’t they go undefeated against the Spurs this season?
2-1 was the record
What gauntlet, they played one good team to get to the finals
Close. We won 3⁄4
Nah 2⁄3 including the nba cup
Two Rookies playing solid minutes for the Championship. This is gonna be amazing.
Rooting for both teams to give it their all.
Castle and harper vs brunson gonna be so fun
Happy for Spurs and Knicks fans, the early arrival of the Spurs or the Knicks finally winning one
Party like it’s 1999
May the odds ever be in your favor Knicks 🫶
NBA HQ is creaming their jeans right now.
Neat
Cool
I was waiting for this post to come up and the thousand other similar takes between now and Wednesday
First time in Vegas Golden Knights history
NBA Cup upscale!
Lakers were the inaugural champs!
Does this mean we’re already up 1-0?
They were the best then and they are the best now.
I’m just happy to see a new champion
1999 REMATCH
I need angry Wemby looking for revenge
Let’s go Knicks!
Be the first to win a Double and put a bow on an already historical Playoffs run 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Knicks finna do the double! 😤
My god this is the biggest windfall since the Mavs got the #1 pick for people that dont actually watch hoops but like to pretend they in know by claiming the NBA is rigged
So even if the Knicks lose, it’s just 1:1 then. They would split the trophies this year!
Half a ring is wild. Knicks refused to even hang the banner
As a Heat fan I can’t bring myself to root for the Knicks, but I like almost all of the players involved in the Finals and Mikal winning a title would make me smile a little. Having said that, go Spurs.
Okc Flop City has been decimated…it’s a new age regardless who wins in the Knicks vs Spurs Series. Wish our Knicks oppentents luck
Crazy that my same post gets removed cuz of the Thunder flair lol, also note that the Spurs beat the Thunder in the semifinals to advance to face the Knicks in the Cup championship game
Knicks in 5
God the cup championship thing is awful. Hopefully the players care because I just don’t.
Spurs in 4
Spurs in 4. They just shit on a much better defense. Kat is going to drop a turd when he sees Wemby.
Pacers fans are shook rn lmao.
Bro. Yall bout to get a wake up call. Like last years Cavs team vs Miami. This is a completely different beast..
Youre salty as FK….. acting like OKC fans last year when they said they would blow out Pacers
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Go eat a corn on the cob the long way , ya franchise will never win 1 god damn chip bitch
I like this guy. We got okc’s bum asses back for winning a fake ring against yall. Indy has a chip if not for Hali’s injury.
Sybau and enjoy the draf… Oh wait
Enjoy this dream! It’s about to be a nightmare
Remindme! 2 weeks “salty pacers fan”
People said the same thing bout your squad last year lmao.
Yall love comparing us. I know we slapped yall but Damm…
It’s ok bro. I’m sure you’ll be back next year.
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