Bill Simmons

And I was, my dad's coming up after you who I already recorded with.

And I was saying how the Knicks are the one team.

I don't want the Celtics to play in the playoffs because I feel like the interesting, I feel like the Celtics are the one team.

The Knicks probably feel like we can beat those guys.

And I'm not sure there are other teams in that list.

Well, I think that our first-round matchup, I feel like, is a team that I feel good about.

Which one?

Who's the first-round matchup going to be?

If it's Philly, I feel pretty good.

Let me knock on wood and not start any kind of... But that's a team where I feel like I have a reasonable amount of confidence.

Everybody else I feel very... I feel increasingly nervous about, including the Celtics, who, listen...

If you had talked to me in the middle of the season last year before the playoffs, I'd say, you know, no way we touch this.

They wipe us off the court.

And the Knicks dug down and they found something.

Is that team still in existence?

I don't know.

I don't know if we're still that team.

The weirdest thing about the Knicks, and a lot of people have made this point, I'm not inventing it, is just that their five best guys do not play well together.

And now we have lots of math that proves this.

And so you fundamentally, it's like when these five guys play together, it's not that good.