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The Knicks (and a Crowded East)

Sep 22, 2026 · 2h 37m · take 7 of 42

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Billmean, if you think it's everybody, if Towns isn't involved in the show, he might actually crash the show and have to be removed by security. The one

Loweno brainer is Hart is coming on within 90 seconds. Josh Hart will be on within 90 seconds. I

Billthink I think Hart and Bridges together, right? Because that's like the Villanova. I

Lowethink as a New Yorker, like a true blue New Yorker, you have to have Alvarado on the show. He's got to be, he's got to appear.

LoweAnd so now we're already up to like five guys. I can't wait. It's a lot of pressure on Jalen Brunson. He's out of his comfort zone. There's been athletes who have gone on and kind of bombed. And there's been athletes who have gone on like Peyton Manning and kind of changed his whole post -playing career by like, oh, he's kind of funny.

BillThere was something interesting that happened at the U.S. Open when Shelton won to make, I think, the finals. I think it was the semifinals. He beat Tiafoe. He beat Big Foe.

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