HOLY S^&T! Knicks win NBA Title! Beat Refs and the Spurs! Brunson legacy CEMENTED! Wemby classless!

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Good afternoon, everyone. 3 30 on a Monday edition of On Q coming at you live inside the friendly confines of the SR 1029 FM The Game Studios. I'm your host as always, Rich Canyonis. Hope everyone had a wonderful sports weekend. You are enjoying your Monday, as we like to call it, a Lunis Manolo Mentioso, man up Logador Day Radio, the 15th of June 2026. We are all over multiple platforms on this Monday, which is a New York Nicobacca Monday, as we like to say. Don't forget, get social with us on all social media platforms at Rich Q X-I-G, forgive my voice. Not only was I uh going a little uh bananas on Saturday, Saturday night, back-to-back games broadcasting, and then yesterday as well. But how about this? How about this? The New York Knicks, the team that, along with the New York Football Giants, if you cut me open, the blue comes out, the orange and blue, the New York Knicks win their first NBA championship since 1973. The drought, 53 miserable friggin' years is over against a team in San Antonio that showed their true colors, that showed their inexperience, that showed their youth, which I will get to in a moment. But first and foremost, credit to the New York Knicks. I couldn't be more happier. 94-90 in a close-out game five on the road in San Antonio, in a game again, in which they were trailing another moment for one Jalen Brunson to absolutely cement his legacy in New York sports lore in NBA history in a friggin' close out game, 45 points, and not only 45 points, but just attacking the tin against Wemby, who had absolutely no answer. San Antonio had no answers. You can talk about the shot selection, you can talk about what the hell Fox was doing, you can talk about playing guys too much, too little, you can talk about the turnovers, you can talk about anything you want. The Knicks not only had to defeat the San Antonio Spurs in this finals, but they the NBA itself damn well made sure that the New York Knicks had to also defeat the referees. That's how bad it was. The finals itself, the refereeing was pissed poor, the officiating was horrible. Wemby is a classless, dirty, punk clown, which I'm gonna get into in a second. But this is about the Knicks. And this is about the Knicks that decided enough is enough. We're gonna stop playing with our food. And I'll tell you, for me, I'm calling two games for the 9450 Championship on Saturday. I'm hoping that I can, I'm in Baltimore. I'm hoping I can get back to the hotel because these games dragged on a little bit, but well worth it. I got to call my friends, I gotta text them while I'm uh I'm driving, I'm racing back to the hotel. I'm gonna post a video, by the way. And I get back with about eight minutes to go in the fourth quarter, and the Knicks were down, I believe they were down seven. They were trown. What else is new? And it it was like the TV was this like uh, you know, the commercial where it just keeps buffering and buffering and buffering. That's what I felt the TV was doing. I was like, the sports gods are going to be very cruel to me. They're gonna be cruel to me because they're probably saying to themselves, I don't deserve this. I I don't deserve this title. Like, I've suffered enough. But as the game's going on, and I'm seeing San Antonio tighten up, and I'm seeing Jalen Brunson do what he does best, and then they're attacking the tin, and then San Antonio's missing shots, and then OG goes to the line. One or two, I don't panic. Bridges as well. Once it's 94-90, it starts to sink in. It starts to really sink in that they're gonna do it. This improbable run that at times made no sense by math, by logic, by reasoning. It made absolutely no sense. It really didn't. You have no business winning an NBA Finals when you're constantly behind in games. I mean, the the the odds, the likelihood of winning a game like that is just or a series is on another level. It really is. But here's the difference with this Knicks team. They were a veteran team, they had dogs on the floor, they had belief in each other, they never felt like they were out of a game, whether they were down 22, whether they fell behind in a series like they did against Atlanta, whether they were down 22 in Cleveland, they always felt that they were gonna come back and win 29 down against the Spurs in the NBA Finals. Like they never panicked. And that's poise, and that's a credit to the characters that they have on this team. It really is. I mean, Mitchell Robinson might have had the biggest offensive rebound in Knicks history. And who did he beat, by the way? Wemby, one hand, rip it down. That's all want, that's all Will. You know, Hart, Shamet, Bridges, McBride, OG, Brunson, Cat. I mean, the list goes on and on. Alvarado, everyone had a hand. And Mike Brown, I gotta give him his flowers. The fact that Mike Brown decides I'm gonna have Alvarado and Brunson on the floor for the very first time, and it worked out. And then again, allowing the officials to almost screw up the series. Cad picks up a couple early fouls, but Brown never panics in a game five. He just never panicked. He never ever panicked at all. And Jalen Brunson is I don't, there's no, there's no more words to describe Jalen Brunson. There are no more words. Like the Knicks deserve this. The fan base, and not the idiot young fans, because that's what they are. The idiot young fans that are burning down the city are just jackasses. And, you know, you can't you can't control all idiots in this world, right? Nothing worse than a fool with a cause in this world. Just they're just they're dumb. They're classless, they're clowns. They don't know. The older fans like myself, like a lot of you guys that tune in, that listen in, uh, they know, you know, we celebrate differently. Little moment, a little sentiment, a little reflection, and then you move on. And you smile and you call your buddies or you're watching it with the family, whatever it is. And and I don't even care. You know, it's it's Monday. It hasn't even marinated. Let all the talk for where do you put this team? And I don't care. I didn't care if they won it in seven. Just win it. Just win it. Jalen Brunson basically has cemented himself. And if you want to debate it or argue, because of what he's done, the greatest Knight of all time. And I was the biggest Patrick Ewing fan.

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That was my guy. Always will, always has been.

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But what Brunson's been able to do, I mean, just think of all the plays in the series and these comebacks, whether, you know, it's coming off the ball screen, the floaters getting the steal, you know, Wemby with the mistake, Wemby missing free throws, you know, all the flagrant fouls that they should have called that they didn't, OG's tip, you know, Hart's hustle, missed layup, Alvarado's presence of mind, like so many things went against the Knicks, but at the most critical, crucial points, they did what they needed to do because they never panicked. I mean, they're down 20 with 352 to go, and and Brunson hits a little floater and that 29-point comeback. You just knew. You just knew. I mean, it's been a long time coming. It has been such a long time coming if you are a Knicks fan. And I just, like I said, I don't want to hear all this crap about who they played. I don't give a shit because you're not apologizing. You know, Philly fans, get the frig out of here. You you know, don't even type up a letter today. Boston fans, get the hell out of here. Don't even cut, you got nothing to say. You're not gonna apologize because of who you beat. You're not. You're not. And you know, this this narrative, oh man, the Celtics gotta be kicking themselves. Oh my goodness. You know, Sixers gotta be kicking themselves. Cleveland's gotta be kicking. Shut up. I mean, think about this. Atlanta gave the Knicks their most competitive series. And then the Knicks rip off three straight. The Knicks literally just took the Philadelphia 76ers with their little baby nuts and they dog walked them uh uh across Broad Street. And then Cleveland, are you kidding me? I mean, Cleveland found every which way to implode. That's the Knicks problem. The Knicks took advantage of it. And then, despite the fact that San Antonio and Wemby, who is, by the way, who, by the way, is a talented player, but he is a dirty, cheap shot artist. And he is classless because after he ran his friggin' mouth saying that everyone knows we're coming back and winning the series, where was his little punk ass after the Knicks knocked him off on the road in front of, oh, by the way, a 75% Knicks crowd? He decides to not shake hands. Classless. Grow up. Grow up because you know what? People put that in their memory bank. Elephants don't forget. You're gonna you're gonna run your friggin' mouth and guarantee a win and coming back and making it a seven-game series and you're gonna win it. And then once again, late in the NBA finals, you don't do dick, you miss free throws, you can't get rebounds, you miss shots, and you don't shake hands. Get out of here. Get out of here. I don't care how friggin' talented this kid is, and I don't want to hear the cue, uh, you know, he's a young, yeah, he's young. I get it. But when you're a front runner and things are going great, oh, then all the networks are friggin', you know, waxing the carrot. But then when you do this, no one says a friggin' word. No one says a friggin' word. They don't. And it's so fitting, too, down four. We knew the Knicks were winning. It's so fitting that he doesn't even hit the rim, and then he just gets the hell out of there like he's being whistled home because he's about to be grounded. You know, he's playing at the sandbox or the blacktop, and all of a sudden, you know, let's go. It's time to come and out of nowhere. I mean, that's just classes. What a little punk. Grow up. Grow up. And oh, by the way, don't give me the he ain't the first guy to do it. He ain't gonna be the last. You know what? No, nobody wants to hear that crap. Just stop. Fake it until you make it. If you're gonna sit there and say it's going seven and you're gonna win it, and you don't show up again in a big spot, and you don't have the balls or the stones to be a man afterwards, take your friggin' L and get out of here. And all the jackasses commenting the other day, talking about the Knicks fans coming back in a pine box. You know what they did? They wrapped up friggin' the Spurs in a little blanket and stuck them in their pocket. I don't want to hear that crap today. It's about the Knicks. It is about the Knicks. All right, we'll get into the comments on the other side, get in on the conversation. We are coming at you on multiple platforms, as always, on X. Rumble Kicks Millions, YouTube channel, apologize for the voice. I had two celebrations over the weekend, by the way, which we'll get into. And yeah, the debacle of that was my hotel room and the TV. Unbelievable. All right, keep it locked in, quick timeout. We will come back, we will rip through these comments, your thoughts on the Knicks series. And look, they're a great team. Now, it's gonna be tough to run it back. Guys are always gonna get one, you know, get paid. But I would say this ranks up there as one of the all-time great runs in NBA history. And I've got some thoughts on, again, why I think the best thing was for the Knicks to win this championship as far as basketball and NBA, uh, I guess you can say, uh, NBA thoughts go. All right, quick timeout, we'll come back on the other side. Ripped through some of these comments. DV chimes in, still exhausted. Yeah, I hear you, brother. Very, very happy for you. Michael Diehard, Knicks fan. Orange and blue skies. Yes. Q, did you see D. Fox and followed all Spurs on social media? I did not. You know what's fascinating too about that? I didn't. Um, he had a horrible series. He he had a horrible series. And if you remember, one of the reasons that uh Mike Brown got fired several years ago is because he called out DeAndre Fox when he was with the Sacramento King, uh Sacramento Kings. If you recall, DeAndre Fox, uh, De'Aaron Fox, pardon me, had a really rough series. I I wasn't sure you know what was really going through his mind because he is a good player. He is. He really is. But he had a lot of blunders. Uh he makes a lot of money. He didn't show up clutch really when they needed him to be clutch. De Spurs is a whole, that's where, you know, we always talk about youth. And sometimes it's good to be young because you don't know any better. All those things can be true. All those things can be true. You can be a young team, you can be a um, you know, a naive team, a team that doesn't know any better. And sometimes you just go out there, you're a young quarterback and you're just slinging it. You're a young cocky pitcher and you're just throwing gas, right? You know, you're a young basketball team and you think you can get up and down the floor and run with everyone. But there are moments in a game or a season or the course of a series, in this case the NBA Finals, where experience matters. Guys that have grinded it, that have gone through the heartache and heartbreak, it matters. Defense matters. Going after loose balls, taking charges, loose change, diving on the floor. It matters. Coaching matters. You know, having this unbreakable will spirit because you're treating a closeout game and you're up in the series 3-1 like you're down in the series of three, like the Knicks did. I mean, the sense of urgency. And I can't explain why they always came out of the gate slow. And I've said this, and I'll say it again on the record, and I have no problem saying this. The San Antonio Spurs are the more talented team. If you go mano emano over 10 rounds, yeah, the Knicks might win a round or two. But San Antonio is the more talented team. They were the more talented team. But the Knicks wanted it more. The Knicks absolutely wanted it war. The Knicks understood as great as a team and talented as San Antonio is, the Knicks, they've got that New York grit. They're not soft. They're not mentally soft, they're not mentally weak. There's an aspect of the Spurs, especially Wemby, that is mentally soft and mentally weak. And all the goodwill by going on the road and defeating OKC in game seven, it vanished in this series because he did a lot of things that were not even borderline dirty. They were dirty. He was setting out to hurt players, and the league turned a blind eye to it. The officiating favored, favored the San Antonio Spurs. 100% it did. The NBA wanted that series to go as long as possible. By the calls, by the refs, by the inability to tag Wemby with these flagrant fouls, by benefiting the Spurs, and again allowing the Spurs to be a physical team. But then when the Knicks try to counter and be physical, they wouldn't allow it. They did everything in their power, the NBA, the refs, everything in their power to rip this finals away from the Knicks. And the Knicks said it's not happening. They said it's not happening. Jalen Brunson's enough is you're not you're not taking this away. OG, you're not taking this away from us, Hart. You're not taking this away from us, Cat. They just, they refuse to quit every time they were friggin' down. Character, the heart, the resolve. Like they embody New York. They embody that grit. Nine to five. Clock in early, stay late, punch in, punch out. Bring your hard hat to work. San Antonio, you start punching in the mouth, and this is what you get. They wanted no part of the Knicks. They didn't. And the Knicks, as much as Wemby wants to sit there and say, we weren't there, you weren't in their head. Because at the end of the day, who's wasting the trophy? In a closeout game, Jalen Brunson, who many said you can't win with a small guard. Why did they make the move for Brunson? They hired Rick and then they signed this kid who's what? Mediocre at best? Doesn't have confidence, bad handle, won't take the shot. And where are we at today? And where are we at today? In a friggin' closeout game. In a closeout game in the NBA Finals, do you understand the numbers that he put up? And I said Friday, if they win it Saturday and he has 35, he's going to be MVP. Well, you know, he he he made me look somewhat smart. He didn't have 35, he had 45. He had 45 in a closeout game. And you got the buckets from Hart. You got the buckets from Bridges. You got the buckets from OG. You got the rebounds from Kat, and you know, just the fact that he only played 23 minutes. He was still on the floor. You got the stuff and the good plus-minus, and you got Robinson making plays. I mean, they just won. It more in spite of the friggin' reps in the NBA trying to kick him in the nuts and screw him. Frazier said that Reed was the greatest. Reed said Hewing was the greatest. And Patrick Hewing says Brunson is the greatest thing of all time. Yeah. Willis Reed was an unbelievable player. Unbelievable. I can't say I have to get back to work. I can't stay. I have to get back to work, but I want to give a congratulation to you on your next queue. I mean, come on, man. What are we doing right here? I mean, you're gonna get me misty-eyed. You're all class. I hope your Browns win at least seven games and sneak into the playoffs. Nah, thank you, brother. I appreciate that. I do. Uh Wemby belongs with the bunker crew. Yeah, running your mouth. Uh, yeah. You can't, again, you can't even you can't even get that's the other thing, right? Can't even get a series. Congratulations. You know what's funny, too? So for the older Nick fan, you know, like myself and a lot of you guys that listen, I I mean, look, I I I've lived and died by by some of these Nick teams, by a lot of these Nick teams. And I remember the you know, the Eddie Lee Wilkins of the world, the Rory Sparrows. You know, as a kid, I started to watch this guy named Bernard King, who always battled these injuries, then Patrick, then Jackson, then Strickland and Tucker, and Gerald Wilkins, and Kenny Skywalker, and the list goes on and on and on. Um, and I remember some of the worst painful losses as a sports fan. As a sports fan that I can remember, and there have been some painful losses. You know, Michael Jordan, the Knicks were never gonna get through Michael Jordan. I accepted that. The one year Michael Jordan retires, the Knicks, it took them seven. But then they lose to the Rockets. Everyone talks about Starks game seven, could have closed it out with the corner three. That was blocked in game six. You know, I remember, like it was yesterday, Reggie Miller's eight points, eight seconds, nine seconds, game one, Eastern Conference enemies. I mean, you had a six-point lead with 18 points to go. To this day, I still believe, you know, Reggie Miller should have been called for an offensive foul, pushing off. But they lost. Why? Because in that series, no one, to me, what's secondary in that series, what sealed the fate of that Nick run was my guy missing a bunny, missing a finger all. I had one of my best friends watching that game with me at my house. I'll never forget. He didn't say a word. My father looked at him and said, I think it's time you leave now. I actually retired to Nick Hat. I retired to Nick Hat after that. You know, Charles Smith, 1993. The Knicks were up 2-0 in the series. They were up 2-0. Because everyone always remembers the dunk Starks. It it was and then Charles Smith couldn't get it down. John Starks, game seven, 94, 65 losses in 2014 and 15 after trading for Mello because it was a master overhaul. Mark Nani trade in 2013. I mean, the the list goes on and on. The 2000s were horrible. They were horrible. You know, you go through Van Gundy late and then Don Cheney for a cup of coffee in a couple seasons, you know, Herb Williams, Lenny Wilkins. You know, you want me to get into the Larry Browns, Isaiah Thomas. It was horrible. You know, De'Antoni, uh, let's get up and down the floor. With what? With what? What are we running with? You know, Mike Woodson. It was a bad brand of basketball. Yeah, they won 54 games in 2012. I'm not gonna go crazy. But remember, let's bring in Phil Jackson, who just, you know, wanted to smoke and joke and just relax. I mean, do I need to bring up Derek Fisher? Can we wipe that away? It was bad. It was bad. But all those horrible, horrible moments growing up. The Reggie Millers, the Michael Jordans, you know, Spikely and Reggie going back and forth, you know, LeBron coming up and scoring all these points, Kobe and Shaq, Michael coming off retirement, dropping the double nickel, finding, you know, Bill Wellington, right? The losses couldn't get past the Bulls, the heartache, the Miami Heat series. Can't get through Miami. Forget about Alan Houston. You know, yeah, beautiful moment. Larry Johnson, four-point play, beautiful moment, but then not a chance in hell against that 99 Spurs team. You know, the suspensions that alter that whole series and the franchises going in different directions. Charles Smith blocked. Starks, you know, the list of Patrick, it goes on. Just it just on and on and on. Now, I don't even care. It's over. It's done. It's done because the New York Knicks exercised those demons. Madison Square Garden exercise those demons. The fans that just showed up and droves exercise those demons. And you had a team that was just they they refused to quit. They refused to yield. It just reminds me of that scene in Poltergeist. Like, I feel like now all of a sudden the Knicks, the franchise, that franchise, it's clean. Like, you got rid of all the nonsense. You got rid of all the ghosts, you got all the rid of all the heartache, everything that made the franchise just uh gone. Gone. NBA needs to reassess whether they want Wemby as their face. Dean the dream had one of the biggest shots ever. The NBA, the NBA will allow Wemby to be Wemby. They will. They will. They will allow Wemby to be Wemby. And by the way, you got to feel for a guy like Mitch Robinson, 17 and 65 as a rookie. Look, this game, you're down six, game five, under seven. That's exactly when I got back to the hotel. And you know what Jalen Brunson decided? F this. Too small. I got your too small right here. He attacked the basket. Attacked, attacked, attacked. Wemby actually thinking he's gonna get a beat on this guy. And Brunson blew by him like a friggin' vet, you know, just you know, uh going right by a friggin', I don't know, a little Honda on 95. I mean, he just 15 fourth quarter points, 45 total. Championship, here you go. Banner gonna be raised. 53 years. It's over, it's done. It was a great run. I don't care where people put these players in this team in the Pantheon. I don't. I really don't. Uh Mel chimes in Q. You know I'm not a Spurs fan, but I agree with you. Class this move on oneby's part. Sarge chimes in, congratulations, Q. What the hell's going on with the voice? I'll address that in a minute. Nick in Wallingford. I thought it was a decent series, Q, but I'm still gonna say that the refs as a whole didn't have a hand in this one. All right, whatever. Uh Tom D in uh Summers Point chiming in QQQ. Congratulations on the win. Enjoy it, my friend. Yeah, and how about this? How about this? And this the Knicks didn't even have to tank. You know, the Knicks didn't even have to tank. For the Philly fans, I like to kind of, you know, whack them all and kind of, you know, sneak a little peek, a little peep show, put the little quarter in there, try to get on the feed with their comments.

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Wemby to me is a player that he just he lacks humility.

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You have to acknowledge as a as an athlete, as a professional athlete, when you are going to battle like that and you are banging around and you're seeking out the hurt players and you're being dirty, but you're still a very talented player. I mean, for his size, what he does with the basketball, it's amazing. But to walk off the floor and not even shake hands while Jalen Brunson, after the miss, was business-like and made a beeline right to who? Mitch Johnson, Spurs head coach. And Wemby decided to do what cowards do, to do what bullies do. Once they get punched in the mouth, or once you stand up to them, what do they do? They retreat and they hide. He's a punk. He's a punk. He is. Now, one day they might win a championship, they might do it next year. They might go through the Knicks. It might be a finals rematch. I don't know. They're building something in San Antonio. You can't deny that. He's a brilliant talent. You can't deny that. But he needs to mature and he needs to grow up because life comes at you fast. And there are no guarantees that you're going to get back there, but I think they're talented enough. Eventually they will win. But I'm playing both sides right there. I don't want to talk out of both sides of my mouth. The Knicks treated this series as if we don't know if we're going to get back. We don't know if we're ever going to have a shot like this. And look, apologies, be damned. I don't care about the Sixers bouncing Boston. I don't care that Indiana had all these injuries. I don't care that Detroit got bounced. I don't care that they blew out Cleveland.

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I don't care. I don't. Because you still got to play the game.

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And they were down all the time in the series. How do you sit there and account for a team leading a series 72% of the time, but losing it? Ah, come on. Come on, come on, come on. Boy, I refuse to read your not reading the room comment, but I'll read this one. If Wemby doesn't learn from this, he's a turd. All right, Tour de France. Let's go. All right, I'll give you that one. I'm not going to call him a you know the T-word. He's got to grow up. He has to grow up. And he's got to mature. He's too good of a player. But I don't like the fact that they allowed the Spurs to be more physical. And when the Knicks tried it, no. No. Now, we want to sit there and say Jalen Brunson, never gonna pay for a drink in his life ever again. 100%. You know, it's funny too. I love listening to Michelle Beadle absolutely whine, bitch, and cry on the air, talking about the Knicks and the Knicks fans. Like, I'm sorry, with all due respect. Nobody wants to hear you. You got your feelings hurt because you're a Spurs fan. Yes, there are some stupid fans out there. Yes, you should not trash the city. Yes, you should not throw things at people. But are we gonna act as if New York or those fans are the only friggin' fans in the history of sports that have ever done anything asinine? No. So pipe down. Take your L. That's why my feet's so quiet. That's why my feet's so quiet. Philly fans can't say shit. You can't say anything. Don't even look at me today. Congratulate me if you want to. Other than that, scurry along. I don't have time for you. It just uh what do we got there? Nick six times in Q. Would you say Brunson right now? Without a doubt, greatest Nick of all time. It's up, listen, that's it's all subjective. Younger fans are gonna say absolutely, because they didn't watch the teams that I watched. Patrick was a great Nick. Now, Patrick also had a lot of bold proclamations and predictions as well that not all of them came through, but he changed the course and face of that franchise. They never got over the hump. And 99, they weren't being dispersed because they were injured. 93 was their best shot without Jordan, and they couldn't get it done. They just could not get it done. And you saw how much it meant to Patrick and these old Knicks, and you saw the respect that these generational Knicks have for those guys. Nikki chimes in Q, 15 in the fourth, 29 in the second, 45 of the game, put it in the books, all-time legend. Yeah. I mean, listen, it's it's amazing. It's amazing. But like I said, the sports after the game, you can't teach this. You know what he did? He just went like this, walked over to Johnson, and and hugged him. Like that's as humble as they come. But then you got the entitled, spoiled little punk, you know, rat clown Wemby. I don't like to get bullied back, and he couldn't get off the court fast enough. He could not get off the court fast enough because he just got his his his hand his nuts handed to him by a 6'2 guard that refused to allow his team to lose. That's the difference between humility and just being a punk. Entitled and having to be, you know, a blue collar and scratching claw and in the gym every day, 10 hours a day with your old man, jump shot after jump shot after jump shot, you know, perfecting your craft. Jalen Brunson, there is a select few that have won titles in college and the pros. It is a very select few. It's only two. Now you add three. Think about the other two that won a title in college, and it should be pretty easy, and then won a title in the pros. It's only three.

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That's rarefied air. It's rarefied air.

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Let me be your unofficial Tour de France insider for the show. I mean, we'll we'll put it down on the books. You know, tax purposes, but that's fine. Are there odds when it comes to the Tour de Force? Um Bill Walton. Right? All those runs with UCLA and that Rip City squad that was down 0-2 and then won four straight against Philadelphia 76 or 77 Trailblazers. And then the other one, you guys should know like that. I mean, I shouldn't even have to bring it up. One of the greatest of all time. Who had a remarkable college record just like Bill? Kareem. You know, Kareem I'll do Jabbar from 66 to 69, went 88 and 2 in UCLA. That that's remarkable. That's remarkable. They never lost in the tournament. 67, 68, 69. I mean, as a freshman, he he was 26 and 15. That's crazy. Now you add Jalen Brunson to that. It was a great run. All right, quick timeout, we'll come back to the post that video on shorts on TikTok too at RichQu. And I'm like, but how about this? So Saturday night, I'm in Bowie State, historic, one of the most historic HBCU universities. I think it's the oldest one in the state of Maryland. It's like 185 years old. You know, just gorgeous venue, home of the Bulldogs. We got the 9450 playoffs. Okay? 9450. So you guys know I call the games for Jersey Shore. Snuck in as a six-seed. So what do they do? Last week or Thursday, they go on the road, they beat Baltimore, the three-seed, they turn around on Saturday night, and they defeat New York, the two seed. And then yesterday, on a Sunday afternoon, they take on a 24 and one Capitol Seahawks team. That's a great team. Well coached. They had the MVP of the league, rookie of the year. If you ever follow hoops in a lot of the one-on-one, you'll see Nasir Corps, who beats NBA players one-on-one. So Jersey Shore is up. Well, they were down in the game 15. Then they went up 21. They give up the lead late. We call it a white knuckler on the air. It was getting very dicey. And what they haven't been able to do in two years is get a stop late. You know, we talk about teams that are trying to win and close out. And what do they do? You got five dogs on the floor, five wild dogs on the floor that refuse to let go of the bone. And this is after, and this is on my Instagram. You have to see this dribble drive shot in traffic by Justin Robinson, who is the uh games MVP. I mean, this kid was he he this kid was phenomenal. I think he had 30 in the semis, and I think unofficially, well over 12. I mean, it's just he was just brilliant yesterday. The whole team was collectively. I don't even know how the hell that shot went down. But then on the other end, you got to get one stop. One time. One stop. And they got the stop and they won the championship. So I was spoiled. I ran back to the hotel, saw the final eight minutes, Knicks win a championship. And then, as a broadcaster, doing play by play, I got to call championship in 9450, which if you haven't checked out the league, you're missing out. If you are a hoops fan and you like um, you know, obviously you got the NBA, you got the G League, but this league is right there with the G League. I I think there's more talent than G League. And a lot of these players played high-level college overseas, some in the pros, obviously. The league is growing exponentially. It really is. They put out a really good product, and some of these players are just when I say they are big time, big time ballers. They're really good. Uh, they play a lot of defense. Sometimes games get a little more wide open. Um, guard play, some bigs, but there are some names. If you follow basketball up and down the east coast of DMV, you'll recognize some of these names. You'll recognize them. But no, it was it was like I said, my voice was shot because Saturday. When I'm I'm recording the final 30 seconds of the Knicks, and it's a funny video, by the way, because I almost lost it. I went from a thousand range of emotions because I did not want the series to go back to New York. I was petrified. I was paranoid. There's no guarantees. I wanted the series to end right there. Just enough is enough. Get it done, get rid of it, end it. So I'm recording it, and then, you know, I kind of lose myself for a moment because that's what happens. I've never experienced a Knicks championship in my lifetime. I watched the Yankees win World Series. I remember 94 with the Rangers. I still have all the games on VHS. It was an unbelievable run. I still remember the game sevens. It was ridiculous. Uh and the Giants have won Super Bowls. And I was just longing for a Knicks championship. Because as I said, I've had brutal losses as a Giant fan and heartbreak as a Yankees fan, but the Knicks are different. I mean, these were excruciating losses growing up. These were losses where you just kind of sit in the living room for like an hour or two until your father tells you, get up. And he would have loved these Knicks teams. He would have loved this run. But I remember too, you know, it's different. When you're older, you appreciate things a lot more, even as a sports fan. So my reaction was 30 seconds of being a little giddy schoolgirl that just got, you know, asked out on a date for the first time, right? And then I just um reflected. A couple of my buddies called me, congratulate me, make sure I was okay. I didn't have heart palpitations, and then I went about my business. Took a nice little shower, you know, a little something to eat before I went to bed, did a little prep work for the finals, and then watched, you know, the highlights and fell asleep. I mean, I was pretty much juiced and jacked up, don't get me wrong. But it wasn't because I'm not, you know, younger fans react differently. A lot of my buddies were, oh, you gotta go. I'm not going to a parade. I had my moment. I enjoyed it. I'll reflect in my own fashion. What is funny too, and I got hammered for this yesterday. So apparently, uh, you know, I I got my newspapers, I got my post late last night. Baltimore, you know, can you can you have a place with newspapers? Because I'm still old school like that. I like to get in a newspaper. Keepsake. But no, everywhere I went, no, we don't have it. Sorry, sir. No. But yeah, like I said, all these horrible losses over the years, now you just, it's it's a distant memory. Now you don't care if you watch a 30 for 30 Miller time. You don't care. Why? Because the Knicks won a championship. You can tell the younger fans, you know, if you're in your 20s right now and you saw the Knicks win and you experienced it the other night, then you're kind of spoiled. Like you haven't really suffered. Suffer for 20, 30, 40, some people 50. I mean, suffer. Suffer. And there are sports bases, uh, sports fan bases, I should say, that have really suffered. And have not won championships, have not won a championship. So certainly not giving a pass to how they're acting in the cities and the streets because that's unacceptable behavior. There's no place for that. The older fans, generational fans, I guarantee a lot of us were just happy. Uh, watch a couple highlights, maybe uh crack open a little hot tati, a little bourbon, a little sipping brandy, and then you call it a day. Right? And then you go to sleep. And I don't know if they're gonna run it back. Who knows what that roster is gonna look like? And the whole conversation of you know, greatest this, greatest that, save it, save it for down the road. Save it for down the road. Sometimes you just gotta you gotta enjoy the moment, right? Just enjoy the moment. Brunson cemented his legacy. Brunson cemented his legacy. And the shot, the dribble drive, you know, basically complete that comeback down 29. Um and then, you know, the back and forth, and then the image of OG with the tip. Uh, it's that's the frame, folks. That's the shot. Like that's it. You know, there's no more Starks to dunk. It's it's it's OG. It's OG. I mean, that is it. That that that shot signifies, right? Because the best player on the team taking the shot doesn't drop, but then collectively as a unit, crashing the boards and doing the dirty work. I mean, that's fitting rather than the shot going in or a dunk, because that is such a athletic heart. I mean, how many times do you think about this? You're flying full speed and you get a right pall on it. And the sports gods finally, the sports gods finally decide to smile on you. And here's another thing, if we're really being honest, a little more on that, and if it hits the back of the rim, he's not getting that. But OG out jumped everyone. It was just a will desire to get there first. And as I've said many times over the years, when it comes to sports, sometimes teams are just due. And the Knicks, after 53 years, they were due. All right, gonna start wrapping it up. Uh, we will be on later on in the week. Got to give the voice a tad of a rest. Jonathan Marshall on the NBA, Lloyd Vance later on. We'll talk a lot of NFL with him. We'll mix in some Major League Baseball as well. Yes, we will get into the World Cup. Yes, I saw Spain. Uh I mean, come on, what are we doing, Spaniards? Um, we will uh squeeze that in a little bit this week as well. But you guys are fantastic. Nick fans, rejoice, enjoy it, uh, keep that party going on the parade, and then some have a good sports Monday. Don't forget to download DSR 1029 FM The Game App, part of the Odyssey family. And special thanks to our good friends over at Plybo Three Brooks Bourbon. Get ready with tea, fresh frozen coffee, and played against sports two locations. Have a wonderful Monday. As always, be safe, be sound. I'm Rich Caninas. Appreciate you guys tuning into this edition of OnQ. We will talk to you later on the week. As always, hasta la luego en dia.