Dan Le Batard

And so we got to speak a lot during the game.

And right in front of me, sadly, was a person who was in a wheelchair who couldn't stand up during the game.

And so I was able to see for the majority of the game facing toward my right, toward the opposite basket until he left because the game was such a blowout.

And then people came to replace him who were not in a wheelchair and very tall and stood up.

No, no, I'm not a parameter guy.

I actually was in tickets that were given to me by Jeffrey Lauria, the former owner of the Marlins, who wanted to get me a distraction and get me into a game, because we've been looking, going to Nick games for 50 years.

He was, you know, 33 when the Knicks last won the finals.

And we were counting people with Chris Russo who were in the garden when Willis Reed walked out of the tunnel in game seven in 1970.

And we were having the conversation with Bill Bradley.

How many of us were there?

I wasn't one of them.

We figured there's maybe 100 people who had lived through this sort of decade-long, half-century-long malaise.

And the feeling at the Garden last night, it was not.

No, no, Dan.

100 people who were at Game 7 in 1970 and then at Game 4 in 2026.

Okay.

Maybe that's Bill Bradley and Walt Frazier were two.

And then Jeffrey would be three.

And it wasn't Russo.

It wasn't me.