I had the same opinion as her. I bet 90% of r/nba did. it was a good take given what we saw, he just proved us wrong… #sports

The way I see it is apologizing would be taking away from what Brunson accomplished. He was supposed to be too small but he is truly exceptional.

No she wouldn’t, she just wouldn’t have a job and nobody would pay attention to anything she says because she would have no platform to be heard from.

also, let’s not just forget, like she pointed out, he’s only the 3rd small player to lead his team to a chip. One was (despite current opinion) a top PG of all time (remember, his teams beat Bird’s Celtics, Magic’s Lakers and Jordan’s Bulls), the greatest shooter of all time. Before Brunson, no other short player had done as much.

She may have been wrong about Brunson, but it was hardly a wild take.

Fr. 99% of this sub have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about. It’s the conjecture and hypotheticals that makes all of this fun.

I thought Lindy Waters was him lmao

I should be locked up in Guantanamo bay for all the ass takes i’ve put in here

and i ain’t apologizing for none of them

it’s very funny that this fairly benign quote from Hammon, stating something that a lot of people believe, ended up being this big rallying cry and not the literal endless talking heads who shit all over the signing when the Knicks got Brunson.

She definitely was not the only one saying that shit either - unless I missed her repeatedly saying it over multiple broadcasts over multiple years. 

I can’t not think that she’s getting the most flak bc she’s a woman saying this. 

She was wrong but she wasn’t the only one

The outrage regarding what she said has always been so goofy and it’s certainly worth wondering if it’d be anywhere near the same outrage if it was some guy who said it instead.

Go back to any draft thread, those are fun to look at.

Her point was, in fact, true too. In the modern history of the NBA, guys who are the height of Brunson almost never lead their teams to a title as the best player. Curry arguably doesn’t even belong on the list of 6’2 or shorter guards (Curry says he’s 6’3 and he was measured at like 6’2 ⁸⁄₁₂”, certainly 6’3 with shoes)

That leaves Isaih as the only Finals MVP + Team’s Best Player of that height or shorter. If you look at all Finals MVPs, that adds Tony Parker 2007, but all due respect to Parker, nobody thought the 2007 Spurs were anyone but Duncan’s team.

An analyst says “this basically never happens, so I don’t think this is gonna happen” is just good analysis–even if it turns out to be incorrect. It’s a thoughtful opinion based on historical facts.

At first, I thought the quote was this season or something.  Isn’t it from when he first went to the Knicks?  If that’s the case draft pundits have a lot of apologizing to do too lol

Did she admit she was wrong? You don’t have to apologize for your opinions necessarily but you should at least have some humbleness when you were wrong.

Yup, team had bad stretches like in January and wasn’t looking like a championship team those first 3 games against ATL.

I’m glad they got it together and won it all but won’t sit here and pretend I wasn’t critical or skeptical beforehand.

Knicks fans were calling Mike brown a one and done failure after they went down 2-1 to Atlanta lol

The nba community is literally only based on recency bias and it sucks

It’s only relevant for people who spend too much time on the internet.

Idc if she apologizes or not but one of the best parts of one of your teams winning a championship is being able to dunk on the wrong takes imo.

Hell, its way cooler to prove everyone wrong. Y’all have one of the best recent chip storylines imo. 

I hear you, but Josh said they were waiting on an apology. So it’s weird to say the Knicks fans shouldn’t care when actual Knicks DO care

It’s an apology for a perceived insult. That’s all anyone wants, especially after the insult was proven wrong. I get it.

WTF are we even doing here then?

Do you think if the Knicks lost she and the other hot take specialists would not have been telling us all “We told you so”

They can’t have it both ways

For real especially when Brunson put it out there saying that the championship speaks for itself.

well Becky made the mistake of being a woman and expressing her opinion and that really pissed the sub off

and then they get to double down on the snark bs because in addition to being a woman with an opinion, she was wrong

saying “I get paid to have opinions” is actually a flex. on this sub we do it for free

This Knicks ring is the new ‘08 Celtics ring. 15 years later they’ll play tribute videos and have reunions and tell stories and go on and on and on and on and on fucking forever.

Instead of UBUNTU the theme will be thumbing each other’s assholes.

[removed]

It’s so blatant that it’s almost comical

I was saying the same thing too lol

People get too worked up over this stuff, it’s a sports related take and people defying expectations is part of the fun

That’s not true. She’s being singled out because she doubled down at the beginning of the Finals. SAS, Pierce, Draymond, etc were all shit on for the same opinion and they apologized (they didn’t have to, but at least admitting Brunson proved them wrong). She doubled down on it.

Same reason people are defending her too tho lets be honest.

even Candace Parker a few days ago gave Brunson props for what he accomplished this year and admitted that she was wrong about the Knicks

I dont think that’s all of it. Perk was singled out a lot after Curry won his last chip and a couple other clowns. For sure some of it is because woman, because its the Internet but it’s not all that.

That being said a lot of other commentators have actually walked their comments back. SAS, Legler etc have all been much more apologetic

Even players like KD were saying it, but it isn’t a surprise KD thought something was impossible given the hardest road he traveled

Please don’t play the woman card. Everyone was harping on Stephen A more and even the players got him on tv twice and asked him about his statements. They actually got an apology from him

Dray did the say the same and he apologized.

Becky did the same thing and didn’t apologized.

Stop it

She’s basically the only one that didn’t revise her position in the last two years. I don’t think anyone would be talking about her if she adjusted to what she was seeing like everyone else.

Not about her being a woman.

It’s not like it was a crazy take either. He is an outlier. History does say that he is a very unlikely 1a option on a championship team.

And heck, everybody was wrong about Jalen Brunson

not the knicks

she literally says after she said her statement “if he proves me wrong he proves me wrong” fuck everyone the only reason they are even mad at her is because she is a woman

No idea why Knicks fans are getting salty, she’s literally admitting he proved her wrong and giving him props

What kind of argument is that lol?

Every NBA champion had a stellar supporting cast next to their 1A.

All of a sudden the knicks starting 5 is one of the best yet before the playoffs yall weren’t calling them the favorites LMAOO. Newsflash ur team cant be shit and win the finals. Every superstar has had a great supporting cast

Jalen Brunson first player to win with good teammates. Steph Curry and Isaiah Thomas, our outliers who played with complete bums, don’t fact check me on this.

She rightfully could have moved the goalposts?

She said the Knicks were missing a “1A dude,” that’s required to win a championship then when Brunson was named she said, he’s too small.

She went from that to now saying “I’ve always been a Jalen Brunson fan.”

Look, I didn’t even have the Knicks playing better basketball than the Spurs.

I’m fine taking the L on this one.

No real Knicks fan agreed with her take lol I feel like the only people who did don’t actually watch Brunson play.

Speak for yourself

Yeah, and the blame goes to Kenney on this one if Hammon was talking, not writing.

Go back a year and 90% of this sub agrees with her lol. Now everyone acts like it was some egregious take.

Becky got more hate cause of her complete and utter dismissal of Brunson as a player in Dec 2023 when he already showed multiple times he was a star in the league.

She didn’t just say it, she said it with vigor

Yea, I think people have completely ignored just how dismissive she was at the even the idea of Brunson being a number one guy.

Nuance? In a reddit thread 😂? I think its crazy how dismissive people are, like go watch it back on YT. She doesnt have to apologize but at least say “I was wrong”. Even the quote in this threads title has her saying “all he did was prove history wrong”….he proved YOU wrong lmao.

Idrc about her like that as an individual but anyone who gets proven wrong on that level needs to take it on the chin. I hope nobody forgets about this just to set a precedent for the next talking head

There’s a total of 3 exceptions in NBA history: Zeke, Curry and Brunson

He’s at least a known troll

That’s not what she said. People aren’t even quoting her anymore. Idc about her apologizing or not but seems like what she actually said is being memory holed

She said smaller guards are at a disadvantage

Honestly I do think this is a bit overblown though. Most championships in the past 12 years have had an undersized guard as their first or second option.

1 for Tony Parker

4 for Curry

1 for Kyrie

1 for Lowry

1 for Murray

1 for Brunson

So ⁹⁄₁₂?

Out of the 5 positions I think point guard is the most overrepresented here if anything. The only centers that were top 2 in scoring were Jokic and AD (Giannis started next to Brolo).

IMO this is a narrative that kinda needs to flip, more often than not you want to have an elite offensive undersized guard if you wanna win a championship. Only exceptions to this were teams with elite point forwards.

No. She went further and said “he too small”

And then should have never been allowed to broadcast again because she talked about brass taxes.

(Jk about never broadcasting again)

And then when Brunson- who was then going to his fourth playoffs in a row and to the finals- was brought up again she said “he has to prove me wrong”

Like gtfoh, does he?

Nobody cares that she’s biased towards the Spurs. It’s just stupidity and hubris packed onto one another.