Chris Cote

They never do what Sacramento does for a season or Atlanta's done for all of those 30 seasons.

Never.

They're always in it, and now we're talking Giannis.

These things are hard.

It's really hard to win like that when everyone else is trying to prevent you from winning like that.

Everyone else cares the same way you do about making sure you don't win like that.

So the Knicks would kill to have Jimmy Butler against the Nuggets in the finals, but they don't get it for 30 years.

And so the perspective on what's great never gets to be as great if second place is always a loser.

And if third place on 30 years of winning in the league is the Miami Heat stink when they don't stink this year.

They clearly don't stink.

Yeah.

Morning getting sick affected a lot of different things.

Okay, but you're saying mediocre for an extended period of time, and I would say that's been the magic for 30 years, and they had Shaq.

Well, the Magic have a different standard.

I'm telling you, this is the worst run of Pat Riley.

I understand that it's a different standard, but what I'm telling you about these things are hard, okay, is that everyone...

wants what the Heat have had for the last 30 years, which is you almost always matter.

Like the Timberwolves matter now.

They haven't mattered for 30 years and they haven't played.

You said they haven't played in the finals in a long time.