2 Vintage Sports Guys - Vintage 5 - Episode 1

Welcome to the first episode of Vintage 5, the video blog of the day by the creators of 2 Vintage Sports Guys! Join as Joe highlights the sports stories of the day. In this blog, Joe recaps Game 1 between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Vegas Golden Knights. Listen to the breakdown of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs. 

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Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to 2 Vintage Sports Guys. We are doing something a little different. We are starting the Vintage 5, which will be five minutes of the top stories of the day. So it'll kind of be like a little bit of a video blog just to keep a touch point and heartbeat on what's going on out there. So let's get right at it. Two biggest things going on are the NHL finals, the Stanley Cup finals, and the NBA finals starting uh back to back. Last night we had the Carolina Hurricanes hosting the Las Vegas, Vegas Golden Knights. They got to drop the word golden out of there. There's nothing golden. Everything's phony gold in Vegas anyway. But what was real was the Vegas Knights going in there and winning, beating the Canes uh in game one on the road. Came back from a 2-0 deficit to take the game. So you ask yourself now at this point, and it's kind of said after Montreal went in and took game one against the Canes, who were coming off a sweep and rest. Do the Canes have to win in game two at home? Can they go back to the land of Sin, Sin City in Vegas, down 0-2 and still win the series? I think the answer is yes. But nobody wants to have to do that. So will they be motivated to come out and not give up another two-goal lead and even the series as they head to Sin City? I think they will. So I think you could probably bet on the Canes evening this up. And really that's that. It's not much to talk about. We'll see where it is after game two, and that'll give us obviously a big insight of where the rest of the series will go at that point. I think what's much more fascinating in the sports world right now will be the Knicks and the Spurs in the NBA finals. Spurs are favored, and I think they should be. They have game seven at home, and the Knicks are coming in rested, which we usually see when teams come in over-rested, they may struggle that first game. Knicks did that versus Cleveland Cavaliers in the last series, and they made a 22-point or so historic comeback to win that game and go on to sweep Cleveland. But let's face it, the teams the Nick played would be like Little League compared to facing either the Spurs or OKC. So, yes, uh Wemby's 22 and young, the whole Spurs team is young, but the whole Spurs team wasn't supposed to go in and beat OKC, the defending champs, uh, on the road in game seven, and that's exactly what they did, and it wasn't even close. So Spurs are favored by uh four and a half points tonight, as they should be. I think they most likely win this game. If the Knicks come out and win this, that's gonna make a statement, and that's gonna make for a series. I think it's a series either way. I'm picking Spurs in seven, and uh that that could go sooner, right? Like it could be in six. I don't think it's in five. I think the Knicks have really found their way. Again, they played little league teams in the Hawks in the first round, and then 76ers team who shouldn't have beat Boston in the second round, and a Jekyll and Hyde Cleveland Cavaliers team who went on the road and did beat Detroit Pistons in game seven in Detroit. But Detroit's not really ready to be there. Knicks have uh went to the Eastern Conference Finals last year. They're ready for this. This should be a great series. Basically, Brunson and Wemby. Uh, one of them is gonna outshine the other. I doubt that they both equally shine and it's left to the role players. One of them's gonna have to take over the game, make it their own. So I'll call the the Spurs winning at home tonight. I'm calling the Spurs in I keep saying seven, but I keep thinking six. So we'll go Spurs in six. And just to wrap up, the Knicks will have Robinson available for game one after his little piggy boo-boo incident. So we have that to uh see if it makes any difference in it. But again, let's uh let's drop the uh the puck tomorrow night for the Canes and Vegas. Let's drop uh the ball, or actually throw the ball up in the air and start with a tip off with Nick Spurs tonight, and we will see you tomorrow. Take care.