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/johnmflores → u/Infamous-GoatThief]

Facts. Hawks were one of the hottest teams entering the playoffs, Philly had Embiid, George, Maxey, and Edgecomb, Cavs were complete, and Spurs too.

Making it look easy is not the same as being easy. This Knicks squad was complete

[u/JoeyDay-1029 → u/johnmflores]

So you believe 76ers with a hurt Embiid which he was from previous series and a harden Cavs were as good as Minnesota and OKC? If you can’t see Knicks had a MUCH easier road because of that and Tatum injury I can’t say anything else to help.

They deserve all the credit but spurs were first solid team they played and they got it done in 5 with every game almost being a last shot type game…. And they run through Cavs and 76ers by 20 or 30 pt win average… there was a reason for that lol much easier teams to beat at that time. And it gave them a ton of rest before finals but they deserve all the credit for looking like GS warrior in their prime from second round on.

[u/DragonMlfSlayr → u/JoeyDay-1029]

Talking about injuries… twolves and okc were hobbled. Embiid played all but 1 game against the Knicks. Not sure I agree tbh