Al Harrington

And it's funny because I mean, I don't even remember early in the year.

It seems like, you know, Mike Brown and Karl-Anthony Towns was butting heads a little bit.

And I think maybe it might have been Mike telling him, like, yo, stop focusing on only scoring.

You can make plays for this team.

And I think he finally woke up as this playoffs got going.

And I think you see he actually enjoys this role.

He likes playing the facilitator.

He likes throwing his little no-look passes and stuff like that.

And then when you think about it, you know, with Jalen, it just makes him so much more dangerous where, you know, all 10 odds aren't looking at him every time he has the ball.

Now he's moving, he's cutting, he's finding open spaces to score.

And that just makes the team so much more dangerous.

I mean, this kid's different.

You know, most players, I would say 99.9% of the players wouldn't even consider doing that.

But obviously, you know, this kid obviously had a different goal in mind.

You know, I think he decided, he thought about legacy.

He said, if I can win a championship in New York, nobody could tell me anything.

You know, and I honestly believe that if he leads us to this championship, one, it puts him on the Mount Rushmore of all-time Knicks, but it definitely puts him in a conversation of potentially the greatest Knicks.

You know what I'm saying?

With the impact that he's had over this short amount of time, especially when you think about when he got here, nobody wanted him.

Everybody thought he was extremely overpaid.