Knicks With The Greatest Comeback Ever, Spencer Hawes Talking Game 5, Illini Head Coach Bret Bielema In Studio, Preseason Mt Rushmore With Hank's Dad + Fyre Fest of The week

**Dan Katz** (0:00)
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Welcome to Part of My Take presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours today is Friday, June 12th, and the New York Knicks are one single game away from being NBA champions after the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history. Boys, what a game, what a night, simply incredible.

**Peter Freilich** (2:51)
The $5,000 get in price was actually a bargain if you went to that game and you're a Knicks fan, because what you got was probably the best night of your life.

**Dan Katz** (2:59)
Yeah.

**Peter Freilich** (3:00)
Actually, no, that was definitely the best night of your life. Sports will not get any better than that, than if you paid $5,000 to go to Madison Square Garden last night. The return on that investment, it was as bad as that first half was, and I don't think that many people left MSG. I think there's probably a couple of hundred people that might have left early.

**Dan Katz** (3:18)
I don't know if anyone did.

**Peter Freilich** (3:20)
But by and large, I think for the most part, the crowd stayed there.
What a moment that was, and you felt it building up in the second half, like, just slowly, just chipping away at them, making it bite, taking one bite at a time away from the Spurs, and it ended with... We could have the debate if the Spurs choked it or if the Knicks won it.

**Dan Katz** (3:42)
I don't know why it can't be both.

**Peter Freilich** (3:44)
It was an incredible thing to watch. Even on television, it was one of those... I don't find myself particularly rooting for the Knicks. I don't find myself particularly rooting for the Spurs. I want Memes and Zac to be happy.
But, just watching that last night, I was like, this is... this fucks. This is why we watch sports.

**Dan Katz** (3:59)
Do you know what it was, too? It was 76-49 in the first half. The Spurs shoot the absolute lights out. The game starts, we get the two catfiles right away. Everyone's complaining about the fouls. The Knicks, I think, as bad as maybe the refs were to start the game as they missed the goal ten, the catfiles. I also think the Knicks had zero composure. They were unraveling in the first half. They were giving up wide open threes. You had Mitch Robinson get a flagrant on Wemby, like Wemby doing the I'm in your head. It felt as bad as bad could get for the Knicks. It also felt like we were just wasting an entire NBA Finals game. So to go from that to what we watched in the second half, and the Knicks to basically come out at halftime and be like, we didn't hear no bell. We're not giving up. To get off the mat like that and chip away slowly, make it 15 going into the fourth, get it under 10 And it was an OG and an OB just with the greatest tip in, like it just an insane, he has the block on DeAron Fox. He has the tip in.