Cody Westerlund

But the Giannis sweepstakes are really fascinating, in part because the Knicks are playing so well right now that they might not breeze to the NBA Finals, but it feels like they have a really good chance to come out of the East if they're really competitive with, say, the Thunder or Spurs in the NBA Finals.

Even if they don't win it, you lose a tough six-game series.

And

They go back to work in the offseason, and they're thinking, we're right there.

We have enough where we are maybe.

Maybe Giannis is the final player to put him over the top, but they don't want to part with OG Ananobi, right?

I know he's out right now with an injury, but when the Knicks look ahead too, everyone thought they were going to get Giannis last year at this trade deadline or something.

They've built something great without him right now.

I was off on that.

The game that was actually close, he played in.

Yeah, it's hard to remember all the blowouts for the 76ers, but Game 2 is where they had a chance, I guess.

They gave up 140, I think, twice.

144 to 114, I think, in the finale of that one.

That's the one that really— That's the one where they made 13 threes in the first quarter or something like that.

Yeah, so what you're saying is it would have been 146-114 if they had Giannis instead.

Look, the thing about Giannis that's interesting about it is I think even if they feel like they're good, they're not good because they will play in the NBA Finals and either Wimby or OKC will be waiting for them.

I'm sorry, it's not going to be what the Pacers did, I don't think, because they don't have the depth that the Pacers had when they faced OKC and OKC a year older, a year wiser, a year more experienced.

And you just said another team named the Spurs could get Giannis if they wanted as well, right?

Spurs can get anything they want, yeah.

They wouldn't be acquiring... I mean, OKC could too.