Pablo Torre

Really?

That's funny to you?

Like we're very caustic.

We don't trust this.

Like me right now, I'm like, everyone's like, oh, you guys won the cup.

I'm like, do we have the cup curse now?

How do the Knicks maximize their natural advantages being that they're in New York?

Yes.

I mean, how the Knicks have approached the acquisition of superstars is really the premise of why I've been summoning you here.

The thing we did in 2024, this was in April 2024.

Excellent.

We got the tape that the Knicks made for LeBron.

And I just want to refresh people's memories because you two, I think, are just in the target demo.

But if you haven't seen it, what the Knicks did to recruit LeBron James in the summer of 2010, it did involve this.

showing Madison Square Garden on a laptop in this modest apartment that the late, great James Gandolfini was filming this scene out of, in which they're in witness protection.

That was the premise of this, by the way.

My favorite part that I think people overlooked, though, is the fact that when the Knicks were recruiting LeBron James in 2010, they were also recruiting two other stars, Frank, Chris Bosh, and Dwayne Wade.

And I wouldn't say they tried quite as hard,

when they did some alt takes on that same scene.

I feel like they were running out of time in the studio.