🔥 LeBron to Philly?! Welcome to the East — Knicks Still in 5! 😂 | Knicks Unleashed

LeBron James to Philadelphia?! 😂 Welcome to the East, LeBron—but don’t get too comfortable! On this episode of Knicks Unleashed, we break down the latest NBA buzz surrounding LeBron, the 76ers, and the Eastern Conference while making the case for why the New York Knicks are STILL winning in 5!

Are the Knicks ready to take the next step and dominate the East? Could LeBron joining Philadelphia change the balance of power in the NBA? We’re talking LeBron James, Philadelphia 76ers, New York Knicks, NBA Playoffs, Eastern Conference, Knicks vs. Sixers, and everything happening around the NBA.

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Transcript

LeBron Picks Philadelphia

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Put the little everyone this and tens of New York Knicks Monday bringing you a special edition because of the fact that LeBron James has chosen. Of course, the Philadelphia 76ers in the who cares moment of nicknam. This is big news. Signing a two-year, eight million dollar deal to go play with the Philadelphia 76ers with a player. I think the second year is a player option. Oh, when the news came down, I was like any other Knicks fan, I was like, yeah, it is what it is. LeBron calls it his last decision.

Why The Fit Feels Off

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I call it Nixon 5. Because of the fact that unless Dana Smith has invented another way to play basketball, unless we're taking now three or four basketballs and putting them on the court at the same time, I don't understand how this is going to work. You have Jalen Brown, who needs to be ball dominant. You have the likes of Joel Embiid when he is healthy. You throw the ball into the hole, it doesn't come back out. You have Tyrese Maxie, who's sitting in there after just putting up 28 points a game last year, is now going to be a facilitator. No, he needs to have the ball to be successful. And I love it because you have people say this is an A plus deal. LeBron James, if you take a look over the last few years, has not been this same player. He is, he, you can truly say now he is ring chasing. If he would have gone to fill back to Cleveland, I could have understood and said, okay, he's going back home. He's gone back home to have his last hurrah in Cleveland and give the fans that he screwed over once, came back, won a championship, screwed over twice, and then gone back for his farewell tour. I could have got that. He would have gone to Miami. I could have understood that because he did win a championship in Miami. He did again have to go ring chasing with Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosch to finally get that championship. I could have gotten that. But this is a guy that

Ring Chasing And Career Decline

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going back to 2000, let's go back to 2019. 55 games, 67 games, 54, 56, 55, 70, 71, 60. This is a guy, and his point total has declined down to its lowest of 20 points a game and his lowest rebound total for his entire career, and he's going to go ring chasing in Philadelphia, where the dysfunction of the Philadelphia franchise has been felt well before the Ben Simmons issues. I'm going to say it again, guys. I'm calling it Knicks in five. I have no fear of this super team. Jalen Brown has to be kicking himself. He finally gets out of the shadow of Tatum. He finally is going to be, you know, he probably came to his thought process. Well, you know what? I can play with Embiid. I can play with Tyrese Maxie. And then all of a sudden he turns around and says, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to have LeBron James here, and I'm going to now be the third, potentially fourth option on this team. I don't know, man. You could talk about all the stats. You could talk about all the things that he's going to bring LeBron James. I don't think LeBron James has gone to Philadelphia recently. He probably should head over to

Philly Dysfunction And Defensive Concerns

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Kensington and take a look at that area. There's already talk and speculation that LeBron may live in New York and chop her over because it's a 45-minute helicopter ride over to Philadelphia for games. You want to talk about the ideal moment of dysfunction? That's what this is going to be. It made no sense. The fit in Cleveland, as we talked about that briefly, made no sense whatsoever. The fit in Miami made more sense, but there was no town outside of Giannis. The fit in Philadelphia, man, it's just it's just crazy because of also the fact that you have to remember Tyrese Maxie has some severe defensive limitations. Jalen Brown is still not the player that we remembered at points in time in Boston after the Achilles. Joel Embiid never stays healthy. You want to talk about a team that could have a mid-season collapse in week two because of injuries? You're looking right at Philadelphia. And I'm going to break this news to you, LeBron. The Philadelphia crowd is not going to be anointing you King James if you don't come out like 25 and 5. It's going to be interesting. And LeBron James's defensive prowess is not there. I loved it because they ranked they ranked players on everything. So they ranked players on deep on average speed on defense. And there was 480, excuse me, 582 players in the NBA. LeBron James ranked 579th on average speed on defense. Which the people are saying is normal for a star conserving energy for the offensive end and not worrying about the defensive end. You are not, he's not going to be this guy that's going to chase elite scorers and shooters around the perimeter. I mean, it's it's it's one of those it's one of those things that if you take a look at it, it just it makes zero, it makes zero

Knicks Roster Confidence And Wrap

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sense. I'm happy for Knicks fans. As a Knicks fan, I'm ecstatic because we already blew out and swept Philadelphia. Do you think adding LeBron James to that mix would have would have been any different? You have a cohesive unit of five guys who have played together now for an extended period of time, who only seem to be getting better as a starting unit. You have Miles McBride, who has been voted one of the most underrated players in the NBA. You brought back your key components outside of Mitchell Robinson, who went to Boston on your bench. You even went out and got Drummond, who to me is a much older Mitchell Robinson, but is a guy that is a seasoned professional and can give you kind of the same things that you were given by Mitchell Robinson, but without the fear and reparations of the fact that he could miss multitudes of games because of injury and Mitchell Robinson. You brought back a key component in Landry Shamut. You brought back Jordan Clarkson, and you also brought back Jose Alvarado. And you've added to your banks. You got a little bit younger with vis-a-vis the draft. It's going to be an interesting time and moment for the Knicks, but looking at this from a Knicks perspective in reference to him going to Philadelphia, I'm just like, okay. I'm going to say it welcome. Hey, you know what? King James, welcome to Philadelphia, Knicks in five. Oh, we're going to do start getting back into the shows a little bit. We're going to we're just taking a little hiatus, especially now with Giant Cant coming up. So make sure you like, make sure you subscribe, make sure you ring that bell. Because this is Tim, this is New York, New York Knicks. This is yeah, this is New York Knicks unleashed, and I'm out of here.