This is what happens when you always have to be the contrarian who “keeps it real.” He’s the guy at the barbershop who always chimes in and everybody screams “SHUT THE FUCK UP LARRY!”
The KAT SCAN stuff only worked because brunson is one of two players in the NBA who is an nuclear on ball threat who can shift to being an offball movement nuclear threat
All the other high scoring NBA ball handlers cannot do that minus one guy
The Knicks sent all four playoff opponents home for the summer in their own arenas and packed each building like it was MSG
What an absolutely insane championship run
I still cant believe James Dolan got on WFAN after the Knicks had lost game 3 reversing all of the good vibes this team had, talked smack about San Antonio like prime TNT Charles Barkley, guaranteed the Knicks would win game 4 and the Finals and....the KNICKS WON game 4 and the Finals.
Nerlens Noel on IG: "Happy for all the Knicks Fans! What a time it was to play there and now see 'We Here' come to life with this group! Congrats!"
Mitchell Robinson: "My Dawg!!!!!"
Now that the Knicks won a title with Brunson leading the way we are seeing the greatest NBA Twitter galaxy brain takes ever where winning titles either doesn't matter or is actually overrated.
It's gonna be a long summer for these people. Hopefully Giannis gets traded soon lol.
(Guys its not about Wemby shaking hands.
Its him refusing to show any respect to the opponent all series, flagrantly fouling them -maybe even trying to injure them- talking shit, choking, losing and THEN not shaking hands.)
The 2026 Finals generated a record 15 BILLION views on social media.
For context, last year's Finals series between the Thunder and the Pacers generated fewer than 5 billion views.
The 2024 Finals between Boston and Dallas generated roughly 2.3 billion views.
Gilbert arenas says the New York Knicks fans showed the rest of the nba what a fan base should look like. He says he wishes the lakers fans and celebrities were this invested as-well