Chris Mannix

Walt Frazier is still calling games for the Knicks 30 years, 40 years after he did it, 50 years after he did it.

And it puts you on that pedestal of they can't take it away from you.

If he gets injured, if he doesn't finish up that well in his career, this one title can never be taken away locally.

Yeah, Dylan.

I think there's players that are beloved by teams even when they don't win, and maybe particularly during particularly long dry spells.

I know as a Mets and Rangers fan, just to use New York as an example, David Wright for the Mets and Henrik Lundqvist for the Rangers are like, they can do no wrong, and there's a whole generation that's their guy, even though neither of them won.

Yeah, it's a debatable point.

I would still lean towards Ewing because of the accomplishments, but winning a championship in New York City is different from winning a championship anywhere else.

Yeah, Marvin.

If Brunson hadn't won a title or hadn't gotten close or made it to the finals, he would have been in that Bernard King situation.

because for a stretch, Bernard King was one of the five or six best players in the NBA.

We forget how good these guys were.

These non-champion Knicks, how excellent they were.

Yeah, Paulie.

But Brunson's not like Kawhi going to Toronto as a mercenary for a year and getting one title.

Kawhi is emeritus in that country for what he did, but he was there too short of a time.

Brunson, he's going to get a second contract.

You know this better than us.

He took less money.

For that first contract.