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That 5th set was otherworldly. And closing the game on 3 aces. Wow.
If JDub and Ajay are not playing, I prefer OKC. Their offense without the SGA bs being awarded is awful, and he won’t get 12+ free throws against the Knicks.
That’s the thing, though: are we sure JDub and Ajay are out of the finals?
I liked “JFub” better. 🙂
No, we don’t know for sure that either of them would be out for the Finals. It’s literally game-to-game for both of them, which makes gameplanning difficult.
The Spurs scare me. They’re inexperienced and probably a year away from dominating for a while, but their talent level is very high already. The best young team since the Durant, Westbrook and Harden OKC?
I just choked on a gallon of haterade.
My quest for podcast consumption led me to the least intelligent podcast on the web: the ringer nba show, with Logan Murdock, Howard Beck, and Raja Bell.
Their take:
People are getting carried away with the Knicks love.
The east was a mess this year. Not as bad as it was 10 years ago when the Cavs faced no one ever. But not by much.
Either of these teams in the west should roll the Knicks in 5 games.
Hubie, theirs is probably the sober, accurate take with respect to OKC but I think we take 2-3 games iff the Spurs considered Minny got 2.
The teams we swept were really unathletic, tired, and and slow compared to SAS/OKC. They were also a lot worse defensively — we certainly won’t be getting 20+ fast break points in a first half against either.
The Mitch injury particularly hurts against OKC since they’ll probably have Towns in fouls trouble within two minutes via their golden whistle — even Nikarl-Anthony Townsic has proven susceptible.
At the end of the day we are not favored to win the finals and there are reasons for that. This is still a dynamite run and our most successful season in a generation, regardless of what happens.
Rooting hard for SAS today since that best preserves our punchers chance, but my expectation is that 20+ FTA for Grifteous-Alexander along with free rein for Caruso and iHart to manhandle Wemby prevent a competitive game.
Honestly, it’s not the craziest take if you look at regular season SRS (we were way behind the #1 Thunder and #2 Spurs.)
We would like to think Brown unlocked the “real” Knicks in these playoffs. But could it be that we just played against worse competition? We only faced one top-10 SRS team in these playoffs (#9 Cleveland).
But, hey, that’s why you play the games!
AI generated answer to my simple query, but no reason to suspect it is not correct:
“Led by Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, and Jerry West, the Lakers entered the series heavily favored against a Knicks squad that was seeking its first championship in franchise history.”
So we have some positive precedent…
The Spurs don’t impress me. The Knicks will beat San Antonio in 5 games. 4 if they shake off the rust early.
And the east wasn’t a mess. The Knicks just crushed everyone in their path.
The west is a mess.
The Spurs are not playing the Thunder. They’re playing the Thunder without 2 of their 4 best players.
Ant was supposed to miss weeks after he hyperextended his knee. He came back in 5 days and played extremely limited throughout the series. Ayo was hobbled with two injurie, too. Donte missed the series.
The Portland Trail Blazers suck.
Aaron Gordon missed the playoffs for Denver.
Phoenix LA & Houston suck.
Also the spurs would have struggled with Orlando, too, and the Cavs were a better opponent than anyone these two teams faced.
“Nikarl-Anthony Townsic”
You *really* like posting that!!!
Really the whole basis for saying the East stinks is assuming the Knicks aren’t good, so if they killed everyone the East must suck.
But if you actually compare the teams in the playoffs and factor in who was available, I’d argue 9 of the 12 best teams were in the East
I’m not going to buy into the prediction hype. The truth is, no one knows who these Knicks really are. It is true that they rolled through the tiny, inexperienced, the injured, clunky, and depht-less Sixers, and the soft, poorly coached, and tired Cavs. It is aso true that both OKC and SAS are deep, athletic, talented, and well-coached, and are several notches in competition above what we have thus far faced.
What I think is being ignored is how good we are when we are at our peak. The only team of note we have not beaten is OKC, and both games against them were highly competitive. But either of these opponents will grind out gears in ways that none of our other opponents were capable of. Neither is a dynasty-level team in this moment…one inc compromised by injury, the other by inexperience. The question will become: as the series progresses, who will run out of counters first?
I think it all depends on how well our guys play. If Mikal, OG, Deuce, Hart, and Shamet all show up like they have thus far, and Mitch Mitches like we know he can without getting marginalized by hack-a-Mitch or his own demons, and Brunson and KAT give us consistent all-star level play, this team can beat anyone…even run them out of the gym.
Because of that, I think it will be either a long series, or a short one where we shut a lot of folks up. Neither of these teams are gonna punk us. We are just too smart, talented, hungry, and connected for that.
Everybody acting like we didn’t already beat San Antonio in a championship this year
I think the problem is that we were maddeningly inconsistent most of the year. At the very tail end people saw a death star being built, but it wasn’t until the playoffs got well underway that it became operational. It’s been amazingly consistent, but there’s a level of disbelief because it feels like it just showed up out of nowhere. I don’t really fault the doubters, because I can barely believe it myself.
We absolutely crushed weaker and/or injured opponents, but if we remember accurately before each series we were all fairly worried and could envision things going sideways. And pretty sure nobody was predicting wins by 30+ or 50+ points.
It’s going to be a very interesting finals…
yay, game 7 day, hope it’s a good one tonight…
They should impress you. They finished the season 30-4 or something like that. They have the best player in the league along with other elite talent that is developing very rapidly. They’ve managed to win 3 games against the super team of our era, who we have not beaten since 2022. I’m not saying we can’t beat them but predicting we do so in 5, which would require winning 2/3 on the road, is preposterous.
It’s true the West was a mess this year with Luka out and Ant hobbled. But the West’s top two were the best teams in the league by far over the large sample of the RS.
Do you really think OKC would have struggled to sweep the Cavs or Sixers that we faced? Or lost 2 against the Hawks?
Jdub and Mitchell were 6th and 7th in BPM this season.. That’s why OKC is GOAT level. They have 10 rotation players with positive BPM. They are more resilient against injury than any great team in history. Losing Mitch hurts us more than their injuries hurt them, and it’s not even certain their injured guys miss the finals.
Like I’ve said before, you could probably split OKC into two teams that would both be contenders. Losing to them in 5 would be a decent showing.
Against the Spurs we are Ace-King vs. Queens all in pre flop, almost a coinflip. Against OKC we are more like Ace-King against pocket Kings — a very narrow path to winning, and at full strength they’d be pocket aces.
Boomer poker analogies are a real high wire act.
Pags, even though you should have been banned long ago for being a dogshit troll, I appreciate that you have been making an effort to be less of one since your early playoffs nonsense. So I will politely respond by saying that there are definitely some things I take issue with, from being overstated to abject hyperbole:
“They’ve managed to win 3 games against the super team of our era, who we have not beaten since 2022.”
Overstated. I would not call the OKC Thunder the “super team of our era.” They have indeed been the best regular season team in the NBA for the past two years. They are well-positioned to stay near the top for the foreseeable future. But they have a ways to go before they can seriously be called a “super team.” They eked their way over a very good but not great Indiana team to a championship last year. They have struggled against the Spurs all year and continue to do so. And who cares if we haven’t beaten them since 2022? All of those games were during the regular season, and only 2 of them were this year and both were within a point with a few minutes left. None of that will matter on Wednesday.
“Do you really think OKC would have struggled to sweep the Cavs or Sixers that we faced? Or lost 2 against the Hawks?”
True, but to stretch this to a conclusion is overstated. I agree that the Thunder would likely have made short work of those teams, but so what? The point is, we don’t have to wonder about what we would have done against them. We beat their brains out in historic fashion.
“Jdub and Mitchell were 6th and 7th in BPM this season.. That’s why OKC is GOAT level. They have 10 rotation players with positive BPM. They are more resilient against injury than any great team in history.”
This is hyperbole. JDub and Ajay are two players who are vital to the Thunder. Losing one of them would empower the other one to fill some of the void. Losing both requires that guys like Jared McCain and Aaron Wiggins need to fill some of that void. That is a HUUUUUUGE step down, especially in the case of JDub, who is an all-star-level player of the shot-creating variety.
“…you could probably split OKC into two teams that would both be contenders”
This is ULTRA-hyperbole. Take the top 14 players and split them any way you want and you will get at best one contender and one squad that would at best find the same fate as ATL, PHI, CLE, PHX, LAL. etc., if not worse. You don’t need to make outrageous claims in order to make the valid point that OKC is very good and very deep. We all know that.
I think that having the OKC-SAS game film will be a significant advantage for the Knicks. Both teams are pulling out all the stops, so we can see virtually everything they run to counter look their opponent shows. There is unlikely to be anything new they can conjure up, especially with only 3 days to regroup after one of the toughest 7-game battles in recent memory.
kinda happy i find myself mostly not rooting tonight. all time moment to be a diehard nyk & nba fan with a classic game 7 and the finals on the doorstep. with the intra-season improvement of wemby, castle and especially harper, think the matchups are pretty close if jdub and mitchell aren’t healthy. but even if they’re not, the whole point is to ski k-12, not hope the snow melts beneath you.
Looking at the football European Champions League Final between Arsenal and PSG. Big thing for those who follow it. Just showed a shot of Nicola Jokic and no English announcer had any idea who he is.
There are undoubtedly many strong arguments for why OKC or San Antonio should win the finals.
But the argument those clowns were making is that the Knicks aren’t actually that good, they just played in the East.
Occasionally.
Wemby doesn’t seem to have the strength and conditioning for this grind yet.
I would add that the Hawks were a much improved team in the second half of the season, the Sixers were finally healthy, and the Cavs were a 64 win team last year and were much better in the second half of the season. They also beat a 60 win team in the previous round.
If you look at inter-conference results, the West won by 621-609 (East was better than the last two years), and the East had 3 truly tanking teams while the West only had 2.
If you find that the Knicks path was unimpressive, you’d have to acknowledge that the two Western finalists had an equally easy path.
The argument for why the West teams are better should be talent and regular season performance, not the path they took.
This is it in a nutshell.
They’re getting all this credit for going toe-to-toe with the Thunder. But this isn’t the Thunder. This is the Thunder without Jalen Williams and Ajay Mitchell.
In all seriousness, does anyone (besides Pags) think if the Spurs were the top seed in the East they would have stormed through Orlando and Cleveland in 8 games before stomping the Knicks in the ECF?
I don’t see it. Orlando would have given them fits with their physicality. And a rested Cleveland IMO would have taken SA to 6 or 7 games in the 2nd round.
the spurs obviously a ferocious team that improved throughout the year thanks to having a nearly unprecedented noob weighting. they won 30 of their last 34 with a 14.7 net rating and only 10 of those games against bottom 10 teams. they beat the timberwolves, a very good team, by 16/100 over six games without a 3pt shooting windfall. they were plus 17 per 100 in 1866 minutes with wemby on the court this year, which is miles better than the nuggets have ever been with jokic on and better than any lebron team has ever been with lebron on. in the playoffs, they are also plus 17 with wemby on. the spurs are a beast.
Ufff Arsenal
A few things could be true at the same time: the two West teams are both excellent, and the Knicks historic playoffs make them true contenders as well.
If the Knicks lose, the Knicks are bad. If the Knicks win, it’s the competition that’s super weak, the Knicks are still bad.
Let’s win the Finals and we’ll see what they’re going to say then. 😀
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I don’t think there’s a good case for the Wolves being better than the Hawks, Sixers, or Cavs.
Availability matters.
We played the Sixers with Maxey, Embiid, and George, not the shit version of them that played most of the year with just Maxey.
Ant was as limited as Embiid. Ayo, too. Donte was out. That was a severely compromised Wolves team.
There are great arguments to be made for the Spurs, and you made a good one. But I don’t think “they’ve faced stiffer comp than the Knicks in the playoffs” is valid. They’ve only played the Thunder, and a compromised version of them, at that.
At this point I will be bitterly disappointed if they don’t win tonight.
I very, VERY much want the Spurs to win tonight. So I assume we will be seeing a Game 1 in San Antonio come Wednesday, as the universe is going out of its way to please me this postseason.
If you want to see the douchiest hatorade, Hubert, you should see Draymond Green trying to troll the Knicks by comparing them to the 2021 Hawks and 2019 Blazers teams who made the CONFERENCE Finals. It was just absurd. You can’t pooh pooh teams that make the FINALS.
You can pooh pooh Conference Finals teams under certain circumstances, agreed, but not teams that make the FINALS (okay, maybe the 1986 Houston Rockets. But that’s it!).
Poor Draymond’s gonna be so mad when KAT wins a chip.
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Same ol Same ol nonsense.
a) When you make the conference finals, you’re a fraud.
b) When you make teh finals, its becuase the east is super weak without Giannis, Tatum and Haliburton this year.
c) When you win a championship, its super lucky becuase everything broke right and they lucked into a ring. (see 2014-15 Warriors)
d) When you win back to back, its not a really a dynasty and they’re not as good as the teams that repeated becuase those teams were legendary.
Blah Blah Blah….no one should ever careabout the immediate narrative or what some talking heads are talking about. Trying to rationally address this is stupid becuase haterade is not a rational emotion.
Us fans should just enjoy the great times we’re living in right now and retard max.
So it has been revealed that Mitch suffered a broken 5th metacarpal, which is much more serious than a broken pinky and very consistent with a punching injury (in fact, it is called a boxer’s fracture.)
This means that he probably had hardware inserted (plate, screw, pin, something…) and will need to splint that side of his hand. I’m not sure how you do that without fucking up his ability to catch and hold the ball, let alone pass and shoot it.
Yeah that’s a pretty severe black mark on Mitch. We’re trying to win a chip here, maybe try not to punch walls or whatever it is he did.
If he can’t play, or if he’s severely compromised, this should probably be the last we see of ol’ Mitch. Thanks for the memories though
What a shitty bit of news. I’m optimistic by nature, but based on the research I’ve done, I am setting a very low bar for expectations here. There is no way that it will be healed in a week, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to immobilize that bone without a lot of strapping and taping with some rigid material on that side of his hand. The surgical hardware will help keep the bone in place, but even that needs to heal enough to be stable. Some of the outcome might on the location of the break, i.e. near the pinky, down by the wrist, or in the middle of the shaft. Not sure which is better or worse…
I guess the good news (or less bad?) is that there is time to try different splinting and bracing strategies and to find out whether he can play effectively/what he can do or can’t do. It also means that Huk is gonna get lots of significant reps in practice. Maybe even Diawara gets dusted off.
Obviously the thought of replacing Mitch with Huk is distressing. But he can do some good things out there on both ends when he’s not being a foul machine.
*I’m guessing that the break is closer to the pinky just based on it being called a pinky fracture prior to today.
It’s tough to make the comparison between a team that has been very good against other very good teams and a team that has been dominating weaker competition.
What you are seeing and what the stats suggest are partly the result of the weaker competition, but it’s hard to measure how much.
I think the Knicks “fit” with either of them, but we won’t know for sure until we see how they handle much better defense. “Fit” is a pretty vague number.
All Mitch had to do is literally not sabotage us for 9 fucking days
I may be the only one, but I think the loss of Ajay was way more important than the loss of Jalen Williams.
No wonder Mike Brown sounded angry when he was talking about Mitch in the press conference. It was a bit of a public call-out.
If Mitch got injured in a legitimate accident of some kind, it’s bad luck.
If he punched something out of anger (like Amare that time), then he’s an idiot. I love Mitch on multiple levels, but between the FT shooting, constant injury risk and somewhat irratic behavior I’m not sure we should bring him back.
I hope we find out what really happened.
They say Mitch has “full range of motion” with that hand and will play, so insert shrug emoticon here. When OG tweaked the hammy we had all sorts of faux-doctors on here saying he wouldn’t be back in time to play Cleveland and then he was out there looking very OG-like from the jump.
But maybe we don’t get that lucky twice.
Having broken my hand punching a wall (I was 19, it was brick, and…well, I was 19), I don’t think it’s certain he won’t be able to play. I destroyed my pinky knuckle (to this day my hand is just flat there), but the rest of my hand was fairly functional. Contact was extremely inadvisable for 4 weeks, but I had a hard cast halfway up my forearm and after 3 weeks I was pretty much doing all the things I would normally do. If Mitch has a similar cast, it offers a lot of protection, so once the hand has recovered somewhat from the incision, he might be able to play without real danger.
That still means missing the first two games, but it isn’t crazy to think he’d be back for g3.
That was mostly doom and gloom silliness. It was pretty obvious from the game itself it was a “tweak”. Then the team came out and said it was a “tweak”. If I didn’t see it him jump after it happen and try to run after that I wouldn’t trust THIS team, but this was one case where I was pretty sure they were telling the truth and he was coming back.
This Mitch injury is different. They were are hiding information. Now it’s coming out in dribs and drabs. So who knows what’s really going on besides he’s going to try.
I do get an inkling from this Mitch situation of Plaxico shooting himself in the leg when the Giants were 12-1.
But I also think it could be nothing.
The Knicks were laughably claiming OG could play in Philly Game 3 and he wound up missing the typical two weeks for a mild Grade 1 strain.
The tea leaves:
– Mitch posts something strange about his mental health before game 4
– Mitch plays game 4 and there’s a video of him seeming to hurt his pinky
– the Knicks announce Mitch broke his pinky three days after the last game
– mike brown seemed pissed
One possible reading of all this is Mitch hurt himself before game 4 and didn’t disclose what he did to the team bc he thought he could play through it.
That would suck.
I’m fairly certain the radiologist who read the films knows the difference between a metacarpal and a pinky and gave that correct information to the Knick’s medical staff. I am also quite certain the Knick’s medical staff look at the films/scans themselves. They just lied in this case for no purpose other than habit.
Toradol is a hell of a drug.
My friend Claude told me that Mitch will play game 1 and will be ~60% effective for 15-20 minutes.
Daigneault said Williams didn’t suffer any setbacks playing game 6. He’s just clearly not ready for this level of intensity right now.
If he’s ready for the NBA finals — and it seems like he will be at some point — then it’s a whole different Thunder team.
I’d really like for them to go down tonight while they’re vulnerable.
jaysus wemby
OKC looks done.
so does the league
iHart getting torched.
How is McCain so integral to this Thunder team already?
It’d be so fucking perfect that it would be a clear sign that the universe is just obsessed with getting me exactly what I want this postseason, and since that’s what it has been doing so far, I think this Spurs’ lead will definitely hold (it is so weird how much the Spurs fall apart without Wemby, though).
That was a flagrant elbow by Wemby. This game is gonna get uglier and uglier.
Advantage Spurs right now, but this game is far from over. I just don’t understand how Morey wrote Jared McCain off. He didn’t just become good all of a sudden.
What happened to Cason, wasn’t he supposed to be good?
philly got a late rockets’ first round pick and 3 second round picks for mccain…
looking like a heck of a deal now…thankfully the thunder can only carry 15 players on their roster and put 5 guys on the court at a time…
the spurs lead seems suspect…
Chet is invisible out there
That’s a shitty return for a guy who looked really good as a rookie and was coming off some injuries.
Maybe it’s a Nick Nurse problem. Never liked him much.
For all my OKC hatred, you have to give it praise to Presti understanding how to use his roster spots very well. He just added a bunch of interchangeable dudes who can kinda do similar things, so the coaching staff can just mix and match whoever is performing better, and right now it’s clearly McCain.
I predict a lot of angry fan bases in the future overpaying some of these dudes that he will let go when they’re up for extensions and replace them with newly drafted guys.
The McCain trade was forced by Sixers’ ownership (Josh Harris), for luxury tax avoidance, in the opinion of many Sixers’ fans.
Whether there was any realistic alternative move Morey could have made to accomplish that purpose, I don’t know the Sixers’ situation well enough to opine.
If this was the first time I ever saw these two teams play, I would conclude that San Antonio was the much better team.
The Spurs are done.
I went back and looked at the box scores from the Finals last year, and he was a complete non factor until game 7.
Dude might be a tad overrated
spurs having trouble rebounding…
26 to 12 going in to halftime…
Quite a turnaround.
De’Aaron Fox earning 50 million to do nothing at all
-And he does something . Hits a 3 as soon as I type
Wemby looking very mortal right now
Great half
I have no idea who’s gonna win this game…
I thought Fox had a great half
I mean guys do either of these teams look invincible?
As Bart Scott once infamously said “can’t wait”
OK the Spurs might not be done, but damn, the game flipped when Shai dominated.
interesting that most of the studio and courtside prior nba players on the different broadcasts don’t have any rings…
Haven’t been watching the game — how’s the flopping been?
they refs seem to have not called it, and shai doesn’t seem to be hitting the ground as much…
shai only has 4 fta’s…
Yeah Wemby looks like shit EYEROLL
Score is close but I really think Spurs have no chance here
I’m getting bad flashbacks to the game we lost to the Spurs cause Champaigne hit 11 threes…
Have to say I’m enjoying watching Alex Caruso shit the bed
Wemby is either going to win the game for the Spurs or cost them the game.
Some game.
But I keep seeing very sloppy play. Turnovers, missed layups, iso ball…
I keep thinking like I did with Cavs and Pistons that these guys aren’t as good as the Knicks.
Ode to SGA
He didn’t get the ball,
So he had to fall,
But he didn’t get the call.
How does anyone ever get a rebound over Wemby?!
Both teams beating each other up. Wemby looks gassed.
That Wemby shot was bizarrely dumb
OKC’s vaunted depth has gotten very shallow without J Dub and Mitchell. SGA, Caruso, and McCain are the only guys who don’t seem terrified to try to do something.
Thunder are obviously ahead on free throws because that’s what they do, but a lot of really stupid fouls from the Spurs. They chase the fouls obviously but the Spurs are just gifting them a lot of times, no real issues with the refereeing for me.
It sucks for OKC that they had to use a challenge on that obvious non-call.
OKC is definitely the better team. I need San Antonio to pull this shit out.
I find myself leaning OKC, but I really don’t want to!
Losing your challenge on successful challenges is INSANE.
Game 7s are obviously going to be gritty and nervous but both teams look a bit rattled, the Spurs specially are showing their lack of experience, they don’t seem to have a guy who can slow the game down and make a simple effective play.
I guess I’m pretty much in Let the chips fall where they may mode.
Rooting for them? Yeah, you gotta admire them. I just need San Antonio to beat them, because they’re a really good team even without Jalen Williams. If he comes back healthy…grrr….
That’s a major flop by Wemby. I’m definitely developing an antipathy towards him.
man, this feels like it should be the end of the 4th quarter already…
exhausting game…
If you mean pulling for them for the Knicks’ sake, I am still all in on wanting the Spurs.
Weirdly, I’m taking my Knicks fandom out of the equation. Mostly because I think the better team, meaning the tougher team to beat, is going to ultimately win.
I still have no idea who’s gonna win this game…
Pulling for the Spurs to win. The inexperience plays in our favor.
For my sake, Spurs.
But yeah, in all seriousness, no idea either.
But this is a classic game seven, no doubt about it!
JC and Reggie are killing Chet.
Chet has disappeared. Watching him on offense avoiding the ball is hilarious
Keldon Johnson is coming through for me.
Huge mistake trying to run Jalen Williams in game six
Agreed.
Fox picked a good game to show up
The universe wants me to be happy!!
The Knicks are going to fucking kill this Spurs team.
Yeah I’m not sure we should be so excited about playing the Spurs…
Chet looks like he’s never played minute of basketball.
Keldon Johnson has been incredible
Chet got dunked on by Wemby early in the game and seems to be completely rattled still, just disappeared from the game.
I’d just bring iHart back. Chet looks like Dean fucking Wade out there. Just totally useless.
The Knicks have already beaten the Spurs TWICE.
The only teams the Knicks couldn’t beat in the East they didn’t face (they would have also destroyed the Pistons, of course, but just saying), and the Thunder were the only West team they didn’t beat. The universe wants me happy, so they’re coming through!
Should they be excited to play the Thunder? Either way they will be underdogs
How was McCain THAT short?!
I don’t care that much who wins, so long as it’s a triple overtime game.
LUKE KORNET!
I think Hart should have kicked it out.
Who had a Luke Kornet chasedown on their bingo card. Insane!
Wemby’s just a full on cheat code. Hard to believe he’s even in this position already.
That might be the play of the game
That wasn’t on Hart there. That was on Wallace. Terrible pass.
Brian loving iHart right now
It helps that OKC is injured
Jalen Williams
Ajay Mitchell
Spurs are what happens when you get gifted in the lottery though
Bring on the Spurs!
Dylan Harper is better than Cooper Flagg.
One of the best rookies I have ever seen in the playoffs. It’s uncanny
Is he? Harper doesn’t have to carry a team
Spurs making all the hustle plays.
The Spurs’ nonsense is not going to fly against the Knicks’ defense.
I think Flagg is better now, but I’ve very very rarely been so sure of a rookie being a future star as I am with Harper.
That 1999 Spurs team was all veteran intelligence, just with a young superstar (who was also really smart). THIS Spurs team is all hustle. The Knicks will push them around.
Flagg would look great on this Spurs team just like Harper
Also, guess what? Crazy unsustainable three point shooting in Game 7 is EXACTLY what we want.
Scratch that, HARPER IS BETTER
Why is Chet even on the court?!
SGA really is exhausted. But you can’t airball that shit, dude.
Looks like we’re gonna party like it’s 1999.
And actually party this time
Sure would be nice to have a healthy Mitch vs Spurs…
Chat benched… pathetic
“I want Fox to have the basketball here.” Da faq, Reggie?
Rematch time!
The universe is all about making Brian happy!
OKC losing pleases me very much
Emirates Part II
Let’s fucking go!
I will say Spurs being this emotional could mean they’re in for a pretty big letdown in the Finals!
Payback time. Knicks in 5!
Giannis to OKC is obvious now
Acting like they won the nba finals
That’s PRECISELY what we want!
Fuck it Knicks in 6!
victor wembanyama won’t be 23 until next year…castle’s 21, harper just 20…
caught and overtook okc this season…deep team in their prime…
Sorcery
Did the OKC players all go to the locker room? Kinda lame
OKC was missing some big guys, though. I think the Thunder will be right back in the thick of things next season.
Geo did they overtake them? Jalen Williams and Ajay being out is a big deal..
We need to avenge 1999.
DEEP team…
breezed through the first 2 rounds…in their prime, beginning of a dynasty…not so much now…
OKC will have to start making decisions and extending or replacing some of their guys, but they should be better next season… but this Spurs team is improving so much and so fast that this will be the rivalry for a long time.
Here we go now. Here we go. We know who we’re playing. Let’s FUCK THEM UP!!!
Yeah, I wouldn’t want to be a non-Spurs/Thunder team in the West next season.
We’re gonna party like it’s not 1999!
stupid genie i conjured last december swore to me mike brown and de’aaron fox would be in the 26 finals and i put everything on sacto futures
Revenge for 1999 team!
This is why the playoffs are such a different beast. Chet Holmgren is supposed to be Thunder’s 2nd best player and he was so bad, he was benched in the last min of a Game 7. Jalen Duren, All-Star, All-NBA second team? Terrible. The playoffs truly separate frauds from ballers
Chet was a big part of the finals team last year . Wemby scares him big time which is an issue for OKC..
Vibes, BBA. Vibes.
This was from the comments above regarding the Spurs. Julius Randle was flat out garbage which helped.
First time ever NBA Finals is a rematch of the NBA Cup Final!
Spurs had a lot of guys step up tonight. Good for them, but OKC was soft. We are going to be up their asses.
Chet was a big part of getting them to the finals, but he was terrible in the finals games, he had like a .414 efg in the series.
Knicks in 5
On top of the injuries, Dort and Ajay didn’t shoot well from deep, Cason Wallace is a low volume shooter, Hartenstein is a non-shooter, and Chet was average. When you have such a one player centric offense, that’s a problem.
And that’s not the Thunder team that everyone fears.
That’s a product of not having Williams and Mitchell.
This was like beating the Bulls without Scottie Pippen and Toni Kukoc.
The Spurs are formidable but this was not the championship Thunder. This version of OKC would have lost to Denver in the second round last year.
The better team at the moment won, for whatever reason. It is a worthy opponent that advances. We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Pags, Jaylin Williams scored 21 pts over 4 games after you boasted that his 18 pt explosion was the norm and should be expected.
The Thunder bench that hit all their shots in game 3 went 14-39 tonight.
Most of all, we will find out what we are made of, how we measure up. This will inform the offseason.
I came in looking at these two as the most important players .
Caruso- 12 points on 14 shots.
McCain – 12 shots for 12 points
Not saying it can’t be done, but it would be extremely rare for a team to go all the way without paying their dues
And we’ve definitely paid our dues
I am so bloody confident that Jalen Brunson will be the mentally toughest player in the finals.
congrats to jeremy sochan on being the only player in the nba to have already secured a ring. i remember varejao was in this situation, but i think he turned cavs ring offer down.
wait, thought alex caruso was so great…chet all nba, defensive first team…
lou dort can shoot now, right, wallace is some crazy kind of thief…
j-dub is like always hurt, thunder are used to playing without him…
ajay mitchell just got going this season…
the whole reason we didn’t get to the finals last year is because isaiah hartenstein left our team…jaylin williams just outplayed him by a bunch…
he’s crazy good, don’t you know…
no franchise legacy for you okc…one lonely ring is all they got, and no chance this season to get another…
For all the shit that SGA has gotten from the haterz here and elsewhere (largely undeserved imho) he showed up tonight and had a magnificent game. That was an MVP-level performance.
If Nate Robinson can “roof” Yao Ming, then Jose Alvarado can certainly hold Wemby scoreless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt5pOPn_0Ik
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All the spurs fans who paid $150 to see game 6 of the WCF must be so confused right now.
What can I say, Hubie? There’s a reason you’re the prophet and I’m the clown.
Jaylin and McCain weren’t bad tonight but it obviously wasn’t enough.
In hindsight what really swung the series was Chet Holmgren being somehow even more absent than Jdub or Ajay.
If only Mitch weren’t such a knucklehead we’d ve in pretty much the ideal position going into the finals
“What can I say”
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Worth remembering that Jalen Brunson scored a career high 61 pts in a game where Wemby played 38 mins.
It would have sucked for us if OKC had scratched by today and then started JDub and Ajay by Game 2 of the finals.
Spurs will be formidable, but I really like the Knicks’ chances.
42 min for Wemby today is everything you could have asked for.
There was doubt?
Too bad the Pacers couldn’t have gotten this OKC team.
living in the past seems less than fruitful…future is full of possibility, plenty of it positive, hopefully the present isn’t so poor that you feel the need to escape it…
plenty of time for you to go out and get your self some fresh knick ink…do it donnie, just do it…
or, you know, continue to bask in our glory…
at least ‘til next wednesday, no way we win that first one after another 2 week layoff…imagine the spurs will be coming in to the series all kinds of fired up…
cheer for us…cheer for yourself…
You’re lucky you got Thibs twice.