KAT on Knicks winning ESPY for best team: “Analytically we should win this one”
In no conceivable universe does the Cavs lose this award analytically…
Nobody has analyticalled like Cavs have analyticallied
Not even an espy award for best analytical team?
You’re telling me there’s not a single trophy for being the best team analytically?
Analytically, of course.
Analytically they’ve won the past 2⁄3 awards
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Are you really that butthurt that when he left he became an even better player or that you guys are utter trash? Either way quit your shitty commenting cause you add nothing
Talk your shit king you deserve it
The delivery was chefs kiss, hammered it home while keeping the deadpan.
It’s freakin hilarious. The fact that you can’t tell the difference between mockery and insecurity is pretty funny
To be fair those 2 things aren’t mutually exclusive
He’s making fun of them.
He looks secure af to me.
Insecurity =/= pettiness
Smartest laker fan.
I’m pretty sure virtually every single team that wins a championship brings up shit the haters or doubters said along the way. Its part of professional sports. It’s not like some rando brooding about Jan from accounting making them look bad in the weekly zoom meeting.
A Lakers fan calling another team insecure when they didnt win the title it pretty funny
I think there’s a person here that’s insecured… and it ain’t KAT…
Win the championship and you get to talk shit. Also, looking sharp dude.
that suit looks fantastic on him
Remember 90s baggy suits? Jeez those were awful.
The 2003 draft class foto is such a time capsule for that era of suits.
Super baggy clothes are back in though, because we sadly learn nothing from history, not even fashion.
Not for suits though
Fashion is cyclical. We’ll be back to more form fitting at some point.
Talk to em Big Bodega
Bodega KAT
Oh that’s got to stick lol
The Big Bodega is a genius nickname, wow
Talk your shit champ
Thought I was on the circlejerk sub for a second. Talk to ‘em KAT
KAT looks pretty locked in here. Early in his career, he’d do a bunch of commercials or guest star on Disney shows so I think acting/media has always been an interest of his. Looks like he is dipping his toes in that realm again after the championship.
The amount of doors being a champion in New York opens up are crazy. He’s set with pretty much anything he wants to do post playing career.
Honestly could probably run for mayor.
any Knick would win in a landslide at this point (assuming Mamdani wasn’t running)
I’d argue just about any of them would win unanimously at that.
Plenty of NIL available for veteran contracts and you can actually do the commercial instead of planting fake trees.
he was in Devil Wears Prada 2
He wants that two peat badly
If there’s one thing Timberwolves stars can do, it’s fucking act. KG, KAT, Ant, Kevin Love even appeared on Suite Life and Entourage a few times lol
He does it in the huddle, too. He sounds like the veteran cook from Waiting. He’s a pontificator. This is the same shit he has been saying to the team.
I never would have expected him to be a leader on defense, either, but here we are.
He’s not wrong. The Knicks were, if I may be so eloquent, unfuckwitable.
you’re going to make me love hawks fans the way pacers fans adore celtics fans with statements like that
Shout out to the Hawks that drew more blood on the Knicks than anyone else in the playoffs!
What in the god forsaken ever loving fuck are you on about?
such a sassy response very on brand
Oh for sure
My coach is only known for two things and both are memes
Besides the analytical wins, what’s the other one?
Calling a challenge directly in the ref’s face, I assume.
Maybe using his ear wax as chap stick?
Eww 😂
that’s so gross lol what?
Analytically he made the right call. For a coach winning a championship is fleeting and he could still find himself fired a season or two later. Becoming a meme? That’s forever.
Memes can make you rich. Memes could even make you president. Twice.
Become meme, ig lol
He was a good Nets coach with Dlo, right?
Talk your shit goat
He’s the goat of what, exactly?
You’re right, he’s a human being. What is this nonsense
Not all of us can be Alys Rivers.
7ft shooters check the stats
Be KAT, a 7 ft 248 pound NBA center.
Pulls up from the opps’ home court logo.
Splash.
Lets go Kat 🗽 Shout-out Kenny Atkinson for his contributions, Long Island’s own! 🤣
And he was being unironic too
Would love to see KAT cover games once he finally decides to retire.
Cavs catching strays..
Analytically
And factually
thats not a stray bro that was a lined up headshot. wind, coriolis calculated and all that shit
Side note, I don’t fault OP… but these days people be out here just saying shit.
analytically you’re still alive
*Cavs and Celtics
Underdog in every series they played is completely untrue but I respect choosing to believe it.
I’m telling you Reddit told me hawks would beat us, then once we won the Sixers were more battle tested
you can find some dumbass redditor that will say anything, doesn’t mean it’s true
Notably the Hawks came closest, so those dumbasses we’re in fact closest to the truth
Man you can find people that say anything look at the state of the US bruh. The majority of informed rational takes were the Knicks are favorites to win, that’s it
Hawks were allegedly the hardest challenge for any of the top 4 seeded teams in the first round. Knicks were the favorites but lots of people either picked the Hawks or picked the Knicks in 7 but the Hawks would make the Knicks work for it.
ESPN before game 1 against the Sixers kept trying to gaslight people into thinking the Sixers were more talented than the Knicks and then the Knicks destroyed them from baseline to baseline.
For the conference finals, everybody had the Knicks in the Finals unless they screw it up but that was drowned out by the Thunder/Spurs series being talked up as the real NBA Finals.
Then in the Finals, it was all about the Spurs being champs before they actually won the series. Knicks were doubted every step of the way analytically or otherwise
Talk yo absolute correct shit!
Hawks were allegedly the hardest challenge
well that part was true lmao
Yall were the favorites in every eastern conference series 😂😂
Lol dude come on. Don’t let the minority voices be the majority. Cavs were never the favorites on here
Who the fuck was saying the Sixers were beating the Knicks?!?! 2% of this sub? Talk your shit, but at least tell the truth my guy.
Closest I saw was “Sixers could take a game or two and make it a series if they come out as hot as they did against Boston.” which is such a lukewarm take that it warrants no second thoughts
this aint the same sixers as 2024. maxey gonna smoke brunson :0. edgecombe gonna lock him up. next year def gonna be different!
No serious person was saying VJ was locking up Brunson. Fanfic level shit.
I saw like one person saying VJ and Maxey were gonna put brunson through hell
Naturally it was twitter so you can already discard it as ragebait
this is revisionist. i distinctly remember post on the sixers sub a list of players and how they do defensively against Brunson and VJ was near the top early in the season. a good chunk of your own fan base thought this
Yea as a matter of fact weren’t they favored in all 3 Eastern Conference playoff series? I know things looked bleak vs the Hawks for a minute but I never remember them being underdogs. I’d bet even down 2-1 they were probably still favored.
All that aside hilarious joke by him and they definitely proved everyone wrong about not being a title contender. I know some people picked them to make the Finals but I didn’t see any actually expect them to win.
they were -255 vs the hawks– about even favs at game 4, -121 vs 76ers, favourites vs the cavs going into it also. i think us knicks fans conflate discourse around social media and what analysts/pundits say with how everyone views it.
i think a lot of dudes didn’t want the knicks to win, so even in analysis they pegged the knicks as the losers of the series. if we were truly the favourites in every series, it certainly didn’t feel like it with how crazy some of the pundits were picking against us. outside of the hawks series where we were the heavy favourites, every series had us going to 6-7 games.
so you’re right, though as those 40 days played out, us fans didn’t feel like we were treated the favourites, not after game 3 vs the hawks. only the players know how they felt. other fanbases sure let us know, because we’ve been a punching bag for 20 years.
FWIW I took yall serious after that first sweep and knew yall would win after the 2nd sweep. I watched every game and it just started feeling majestic
I’m sure Vegas favored us, but every round there was a ridiculous amount of noise around how the Knicks were going to finally be exposed, and three games into the Hawks series we were supposed to blow it up and trade KAT. That’s probably more what they see than betting odds.
Knicks fans can I get a “Mike,Mike,Mike,Mike” train in comments
Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike
kenny saying what he said after that all time g1 collapse… dude deserves to get clowned for the rest of his career
Ehh I’m sure most coaches have said something dumb in the moment; it’s all banter at the end of the day. Not like the dude committed a crime.
It’s just a crazy thing to say when you’re down 3-0 in a series. It’s definitely going to follow him around for a while.
He shouldn’t even still be here after that series, but alas, Gilbert loves the guy.
Analytically the Cavs are still up 3-2
KAT’s barber got it bro
My love
First of all KAT is comically gigantic compared to the two people he is talking too.
And second, Kenny Atkinson is never living down that quote as he will be mocked for it till the end of time
I love you KAT
I’m legitimately happy for KAT. Dude has dealt with so much BS from the media and fans clowning him for just being himself. Finally has a ring and gets to shut some people up.
Seems like a good dude to me.
Talk yo shit at they say. Can’t be mad at him.
Seahawks erasure
Yep. ESPN is always going to pander to the biggest media market but the Seahawks were clearly the best team.
Best record in the NFL, #3 scoring offense #1 scoring defense, dominant super bowl performance.
Give him another max just for this line
Kenny Atkinson a real trend setter.
Mikal still drinking tequila
SAVAGE
Cmon stop it hurts
That’s a top 5 dumbest quote of all time by a professional HC. I’m still shocked Kenny actually said that.
I’m more shocked he didn’t call a timeout after watching Harden get cooked 3 times in a row. He should’ve been fired for that alone
This is hilarious
That’s really funny, god damn it 😂
Love it. Kenny will (rightfully) never live that quote down.
This dude is going to great as an analyst when he hangs up the sneakers. The networks/streamers should be lining up for his services.
In a world where clowns like Perk are pulling a check from ESPN, KAT should be getting some big offers.
Will the Cavs roast ever end?! They have killed that idiot Kenny enough! This ain’t South Park.
He does deserve it though….fucking Kenny.
“Stop, he’s already dead!”
Kenny Atkinson should’ve been fired the hour after saying that garbage
I wonder if KAT would be a good commentator one day
He’s pretty well spoken, I think he would make a great analyst as well.
lol nice
Outjerked by Big Purr
I don’t know why, but that cut to wide showing just how much he towered over the two reporters had me in stitches.
They didn’t get the analytically joke lol
KAT has broadcasting in his future.
TALK UR SHITTT KING
Excellent. Just excellent.
I’m never going to forgive Atkinson for making this comment
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Not according to my formula.
=if(Nbafinalswinner=“yes”, 1, 0)
Leon Rose sat down his first day as Knicks GM and realized not only the formulas in his work papers were wrong, the organization was still running excel ‘97 cracked unsupported version.
just a happy KAT jerking
Kenny ain’t never gonna live this one down
Tired of these analytics in my sports!
new haircut looks cool
In case you were wondering if shit talking season was over, only a month has passed, and it is still, indeed, shit talking season.
Tell on, champ. Let’em know.
Talk that talk big fella
Why are they inviting actors to a sports show 🤣🤣
Idk man the Hurricanes had a better regular season and just as good a postseason but espn doesn’t care about hockey.
Yes I know he’s trolling the Cavs with the quote.
Rockets fan in NYC, secondary Knicks fans. I was telling Knicks folks last year that Towns was gonna win them a championship.
I love his hair and facial features, smooth af
Realistically, OKC are obviously the best team. But the champions should win all the “best team” awards by default because they somehow managed to win it all. Simple as that
Analytically and begrudgingly, the best team last season (excluding the playoffs) was the blue and orange team from the west.
brutal
Eh they probably didn’t deserve most of the awards, but it’s the ESPYs so who cares lol…
Alright this joke runnin outta gas now
Nah man, you can’t talk that shit as a coach down 3-0 and not get clowned on it for months, if not years.
The Cavs were actually a better team but having to play 14 games with almost zero rest made it impossible. The Knicks got off easy and Kenny was right.
(this is ragebait)
People prob gonna downvote instead of explaining why you got whooshed but after the Cavs lost to them in the ECF Kenny Atkinson came out and said that the Cavs had won multiple games “analytically” despite getting swept. KAT is jokingly referencing that
Who’s got the ring?
Call me when the pacers win their first championship.
Never gonna happen
Case in point
Reggie Miller? Is that you?
Salty about the Hoosiers not winning this ESPY?
Karl Anthony Flop
No need to cry. Yall are the 2026 analytical champs 🤣🤣
knicks fans too easy to rage bait lol
You are the one going around spitting negativity
Mr. “Shut Wemby down for the first two games” actually
Why are you blaming just Fox. How shit are the Spurs to lose when KAT plays like that?
Yeah remember when Fox threw that pass at his teammates back? Oh wait…..
NBA Champion
I’m so happy he won for this exact reason. Such a nice dude. Happy for him.
So was Dwight Howard
Ok?
Dude really compared prime KAT winning a chip to the corpse of Dwight winning a bubble ring
Yeah… what are we doing lol
Don’t be mad he’s not running off to go hug his horses and actually is enjoying the moment
There it is
e; I dont want to let his deleted comment stop you from knowing he’s just being homophobic and couldn’t stop himself from blurting it out
Shocking no one that it comes from the same fanbase that calls shai a DEI MVP
Hell yeah dude gotta clap after a dubs. What’s the issue?
Every KAT post is like catnip to all the nba homophobes