like to have fun
with our guests, especially when it comes to their fandom.
Sometimes, I feel that they are at their expense. You know, we
have fun with Jason Johnson, all the time when it comes is
Seahawks and, you know, Ashley Nicole Moss when it comes to
All Things New York. So, when I saw this last week,
I was like, oh, yeah, we got some fun
rub it in. Ashley. Nicole mosses face
about Kyrie Irving
saying that he and Kevin Durant almost kinda sorta went to her
next back in 2019, but then
Emmanuel Quigley and OB topic decided to show out on the last
day of the regular season. I'm like, if I'm asking too cold
Moss.
I ain't even trippin.
Like, I'm feeling pretty good about the future
at Ms. At Madison Square Garden. So I'll ask you like
after seeing the finish
on a part of New York. So no be topping in a way. He's played
in place of Julius Randle and see any manual quickly. Show
out. There was the last game of the season and everybody's
ready to go to Cancun. But
looking back at Next season disappointing. But how hopeful.
Are you for the future?
Very hopeful. I mean look the Knicks weren't going to be
an instant success this season despite the success of last
season. I think that's just what happens with the Growing
Pains of any team. Of course, you don't expect the team that
was a four seed to
drastically declined like the Knicks did.
So that was a disappointing Factor, but I think the silver
lining in all of this is it has given the young core
much-needed development. Time in much real time experience,
especially towards the later games of the season.
And, you know, it's exposed a lot of the things that need to
be corrected. I think sometimes in the mist and all the chaos,
positive chaos
of a successful season, a lot of things, kind of go under
the radar, right? You think you're a lot better of a team than you
may actually be when it comes down to the logistics and
the foundation.
And I think that was exposed this season. I think that
everybody kind of got a piece of the blame pie weather.
Julius Randle. Whether it was Tibbs, whether it was the front
office and now everyone has to take a real hard. Look in
the mirror and say this is a team. We really are.
There's a lot of promise.
But in order to get to the team we want to be. There's a lot of
work that needs to be done and it's not just one easy fix or
one person that's responsible for doing it. It's got to be
a collective effort. So hopefully not making
the playoffs lights a fire under a team and gives them
the much-needed chip going into next season. Owen, and
hopefully, the changes that have to be made are made. And
this is a team
that we see in the postseason this time next year.
Say you love the Knicks so much. You have allowed
yourself.
Just kind of Glide by that headline. You could have had
Kyrie Irving
and Kevin Durant and Madison Square Garden.
A 1973 was a long time ago,
a Willis Reed and
and
Clyde, Frazier, and Earl the Pearl. That was a long time
ago. You could have had that elusive
Larry. Come on. Come on now. I'm gonna I'm gonna quote
Steven Naismith right now. I'm going to tell you right now, we
don't care. Let me tell you this. We don't care. New York
Knicks fans. I don't know. York Knicks fans are tired. I'm
going to tell you right now, New York Knicks fans are tired
of hearing. What could have been what should have been with
Kyrie, Kyrie, Irving and Kevin Durant. They made their choice.
They didn't want it to be in New York. They didn't work
the Knicks. Rather. They didn't want it to be in the garden
party. Okay, 40 is slippery.
They wanted to cross the bridge and go to Brooklyn. Because
the next quote unquote weren't cool. And they quote unquote
weren't relevant and they wanted, you know, what they
thought was going to be the easier Chase to a championship.
Whatever. And I also, if you
ask Kevin Durant, he says he was never going to the next. So
who even knows what's true? And what's not true at this point
in the year 2022, New York Knicks fans and the New York
Knicks fan base. Don't care about car. Irving,
They Don't Care About Kevin Durant, they don't care about
what could have been, they don't care about what should
have been the franchise had its own problems. The franchise had
his own fans. The franchise had his own stars. That the fans
can go ahead
and rally around the next future is bright. Nobody cares
about what's going on in Brooklyn. They got their own
problems. We got ours. That's it. We're
breaking that out and
how y'all doing?
But, you know,
we never left New York City. I'll tell you that much. We
were never an enemy territory and then came to the Empire
State and tried to go ahead and claim. York.
We've always been in the city, everyone knows where to find
us. We both the same address.
So needless to say, you are not living vicariously this post
season
the Nets.
How far do you see them going? I think the seamanship long
since sailed as idea about optimism. He's coming back Nash
said otherwise, but even if he does, like you are debut Ben
Simmons, with a new team in the playoff environment. I was like
good luck with
that. How far do you see the Nets going, though?
In this in these one? They presumably
emerge from the plan.
Presumably, it's inch. It's interesting because if this
were last year, I would say a lot further, but I think
the East is so much more competitive, and it's just so
much wider, open for the taking. And I think that when
you start talking about teams, like
Milwaukee, when you start talking a team about teams,
like Miami teams that are deep from their bench, their
starters. It's very hard to give a team. Yes. With Kyrie
Irving and Kevin Durant, who I think is the best possible
place. In the
world right now. I've said that before, Kevin Durant is
the best basketball player in the world, but he's not the only
person on that team and I think for me as someone who watches
basketball religiously,
it's hard for me to go ahead and take star power
overall overall depth of a team Milwaukee is an extremely deep.
They're an extremely talented basketball team from top to
bottom. Same thing in Miami. I'm not saying that. Any team,
not faces Brooklyn is not going to be challenged. It's
definitely not going to
be a cakewalk. Ugh, but I can't go ahead and make Brooklyn
the favorites over two teams like that. Now, they face a team
like the Cavs, which is
the plan. Obviously I get Brooklyn that edge. It's not
going to be easy for them either. I think that Cavs team
is a little bit of a wild-card themselves, but they're just
some teams. I have a hard time giving that edge to Brooklyn to
I know I see the stats right there. I just thought about
this because I'm making the same mistake and I think I'm
going to say it's a mistake
because everybody's doing it everybody's saying okay
Brooklyn is going to be 27. Brooklyn is going to be the seven.
It's almost like Cleveland is not there. I know. I know
the stats Jared Allen All-Star has been out and they really are
not the same kind of team.
But do you see any scenario
in which Cleveland
poses game out? Tomorrow night on the road, when I see your
point,
of course, and, you know, I hate regular season stats when
it comes to the play and the play. Well, because it doesn't
matter. The regular season is officially over and nobody
cares. So, like for me,
I'm looking at a Cavaliers team that is a wild card. I think
that you don't know what back team is going to make you work.
Now again, in that scenario. I give the edge to Brooklyn
because ultimately whether it's just one player or two players,
you know, they happen to have two better players than I
I think a lot of the guys on the Cavaliers team and that makes
a difference when you're talking about a one and done situation.
If This Were A series, what I still give the edge to
Brooklyn probably, but it wouldn't be a cakewalk. It
wouldn't be a sweet. I think that people are sleeping on
this Cavs team. It's going to be a lot harder for Brooklyn
and I think people are anticipating.
I still have Brooklyn winning, but it's just not going to be
a blowout. I think that calf seem is a lot solid, a lot more
solid, a lot more deep and a lot more creative offensive
offensively
than I think people are.
in them credit, for
You know will be wow.
If the Cavs, if Michaels Cavs beat the Nets
and spray young, hush the Barclays Center crowd this
year,
like he just he basically just like crushed through
like walks, New York came through and crush the building.
Did it did it did it to MSG last year
and then and then
and then hunts the Barclays Center this year. I'm sure this is
real. I'm that is for sure. When you don't
let me ask you about one of the other New York teams
and that is the Yankees,
how it At all how much if at all, are you concerned
about Aaron? Judge,
turning down, 27 million dollars, a year, whatever it
was and looking like he's headed toward free agency, any
concerns on your part.
I'm not concerned that all listen. What if I do say,
yesterday's price is not today's price. Aaron judge
knows that the end of the day, the Yankees cannot afford to
play. The free agency game with him because they can't afford
to replace him.
There's not a billionaire in judges. Just walking around,
you know, the Free World they can go ahead. Ed and say, you
know what? Yeah, you can walk. We're going to get, you know,
Aaron judge 2.0, you know, out of a
Cleveland. He doesn't exist. So I think Aaron judge knows that
and he's willing to go ahead and call the Yankees Bluff. Why
would you take money
less than what you can get in free agency. This is not a guy
who's easily replaceable. Like I said, and he knows that his
team knows that and he's thinking the long game, not
the short game because I guarantee you going into free agency,
the Yankees will bend over backwards.
Go ahead and keep Aaron judge, and he knows that. So
the asking price is going to be drastically different when that
time of year comes around and not smart. Because look at
the end of the day,
whether it's in a Yankee uniform or not. Aaron judge is
going to get paid the Yankees, just better hope that he gets
paid in Pinstripes and not a different uniform because
the only people that are going to
be looking crazy in that situation are the New York
Yankees and the fans are going to be looking at the New York
Yankees front office. Like what the hell did you guys? Just do
and judge knows. He has all the powers. So I'm not concerned at
all.
I'm concerned that the Yankees. Might try to like, play a game
with him, that they'll lose. But right now, I'm not
concerned.
As a Yankees fan, Ashley, just overall. How much fear
do you have of the Boston Red Sox? This one
fear. Or what's the? I think you gave me the wrong word but
hatred
stocks. I despise the Rope socks. It's a drastic cut is
a drastic difference. Like that's that's how I route. I don't
fear them. I just despise them. So that's what it is. I was not
happy the other night.
Yeah, wasn't a good time very well.
Aaron judge Fenway Park,
I can see it. No, I mean, look at the Yankees.
Yankees are gonna pay us
Yankees, are gonna pay him. The Red Sox, might be a
thirty. Thirty five million dollar a year contract.
I'll tell you one thing, Michael you will, you've never
seen a riot like a riot that you would see if that were to
happen. You thought you thought the riots in New York after the
Knicks. Won a couple playoff games or won a playoff game on.
You thought that was a crowd and that was chaos. Let Aaron
judge, go ahead and put On a Boston Red Sox, uniform and
watch what happened? It's going to be Mayhem. They don't want
that to go down.
The Yankees are the Yankees will get the deal done. Trust me.
That would be K. I think you're right. I'm just, yeah, I agree.
Well, that's an awesome Green Top.
All stylish has always
got. It reminded me. Like, you know, we'll have you back to
talk about the Celtics as they rolled through the playoffs
until you kind of talked about that Boston team, right? It's
more of a Mina's territory. You you pour La Mina for that one.
You don't you don't want me to talk Boston Celtics?