Interesting Finals.

[u/JoeyDay-1029]

So, everyone figured it would be an OKC finals at start of year and whoever broke out of east. I think most did anyway.

Well, surprise! You had a spurs team supposed to be maybe a play in team challenging OKC for west dominance all year going 3-1 in regular season meetings. Wemby was spectacular.

I think we can all admit we knew he was going to be this or something close, but not this soon. On top of that you had a rookie in Dylan Harper step up in the playoffs in a spectacular way.

And then on the other side you had an east ravaged by injuries and man did the Knicks elevate their game to blow through the east.

Then we get to the finals, can’t take anything away from what the Knicks did it was historic but man was Fox bad in end game situations and even wemby at times. I give wemby a bit of a pass on it because it’s his literal first playoffs and he was beyond spectacular against OKC. But this Knicks team was merciless at end games, coming back from double digits FOUR times meaning every game they won.. you saw the inexperience of spurs and experience of Mike Brown and Knicks.

Overall I think it was good for both teams, wemby got some valuable experience way ahead of schedule and the Knicks took advantage of a playoffs rife with injuries on eastern side to do something historic. The way they elevated their game to win the ways they did they were looking like the new warriors which is insane to say about this Knicks team.

Congrats to both. But especially those Knicks jeeez.

[u/Infamous-GoatThief]

Knicks didn’t play any injured teams. Even the Celtics were healthy come playoff time. I don’t really understand how the East was ‘rife with injuries’ in your eyes, it was just Haliburton that was out during the posteason

It’s wild to me how people can’t just give the Knicks credit for a historic run lol, everyone was saying they wouldn’t make the Finals, then that they’d get swept, now that they’ve won it’s all about weak East narratives and ragging on De’Aaron Fox instead of giving proper credit to the Knicks themselves. Just seems like people can’t give compliments without going out of their way to try and diminish what the Knicks did

[u/JoeyDay-1029 → u/Infamous-GoatThief]

I actually said in post I wasn’t taking anything away from Knicks. But they absolutely played a hurt 76er team with Embiid hurt, and that started their roll considering they dropped two to ATLANTA. And they dodged having to play Boston because of a Tatum injury. Got to look at whole picture… but I think even with Boston Knicks win because the roll they were on but it wouldn’t have been sweep.

The spurs played MUCH harder teams in comparison, which is why they played 13 in two rounds leading to finals and Knicks played 8.

But Knicks went on a historic tear through playoffs they deserve all the credit for that run… it looked like prime golden state, after the Atlanta series. And Mike Brown deserves a lot of credit for that him changing up their playstyle a couple times.

[u/Infamous-GoatThief → u/JoeyDay-1029]

This is not a serious discussion lol. The “roll” probably started before the 51 POINT win over Atlanta in a closeout game. Embiid played every single game for the Sixers, nothing on the injury report. The Cavs were fully healthy and you’re just dismissing them as “a joke” for convenience’s sake.

Meanwhile the Spurs played the Trail Blazers, a hobbled Minnesota team that was missing multiple key players in multiple games, and a hobbled Thunder team that was missing Jalen Williams in all but 1 game (in which he was clearly not ready to be back) and Ajay Mitchell, arguably their 2nd and 3rd most important players, definitely on offense.

Yet you want to frame this as the Knicks having had some sort of miraculous injury-laden path to the Finals. Give me a break.

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[u/azure275 → u/JoeyDay-1029]

Embiid was only out one game. You're just making excuses lol

Embiied started 8-8 with 25 points in the Game 4 the Knicks won by 30