2026 NBA Playoffs NBA Finals: Knicks @ Spurs Game 1 – We Are an Impossibility in an Impossible Universe

I’ve been talking so much about how the universe has decided to go out of its way to please me this postseason (and man, has it fucking pleased the shit out of me!), so I thought it only right for me to title this one after a notable Ray Bradbury quote about the universe, which he noted in a 1975 PBS interview with Maya Angelou, “We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”

That is what it feels like to be rooting for a Knicks team that is not only A. kicking everyone’s ass, but also B. Getting all the right breaks, as well.

Mitchell Robinson literally BROKE HIS HAND, and yet he is going to play for the Knicks tonight. OG Anunoby strained his hamstring and it was, like, “Nah, this is the rare ‘It’s all good’ hamstring strain!” None of this makes ANY sense. Karl Anthony Towns decided, three games into the playoffs, to suddenly play like one of the most valuable players in the NBA. As Knicks fans, it is so hard to deal with so much good fortune. It feels so wrong, and yet, it feels so right.

The Warriors were a bit of a joke for years, and then they weren’t. The Patriots were a joke for years, and then they weren’t. The Red Sox were “cursed,” and then they weren’t.

All I wanted to make this a successful Knicks season was to make the NBA Finals. They’ve done that. I’m already happy with them just getting this far.

However, I mean, come on, they just ANNIHILATED two teams in the last two rounds! They’ve won 11 PLAYOFF games in a row! The Spurs, meanwhile, obviously weren’t expected to make the NBA Finals this fast. The last time we saw a team like this make the NBA Finals earlier than expected was when Lebron dragged a mediocre AF Cavaliers team to the Finals in 2007 (Mike Brown was the coach!) where they were destroyed by the Spurs. The 2026 Spurs are obviously MUCH better than the 2007 Cavaliers, and unlike that team, the Spurs truly are not just “Wemby and some scrubs.” They have a very good team.

They also, however, play sloppy basketball a lot of the time, and they are suspectible to teams that can spread the floor (as Wemby is amazing in the middle, but he obviously can’t guard everyone behind the three-point arc).

That’s the Knicks in the nutshell. They crush sloppy teams, and they can all shoot except ol’ One-Hand Mitch.

If you didn’t know the names of the teams involved, I think most people would be picking the team that has destroyed everyone they have played, and whose skills are the ones that the Spurs struggle with (and who beat the Spurs twice already).

And I don’t think we should change that approach just because they are the Knicks.

So I don’t think I need to ask the universe to hook me up, because we live in impossible times, and the Knicks are just destroying everyone, and I think that that will include the Spurs, as well.

Knicks in five (and I really think it’ll be a sweep, but that just sounds a bit TOO impossible).

Let’s go, Knicks!

Let’s party like it’s 1999, but win this time!

Four more wins to go!

Let’s celebrate ourselves about them winning twelve (games in a row, that is)!