Robert Ori

Okay, and looking at Cleveland, one of the biggest meltdowns ever in the first half, second half, and I just think they have had a string of luck.

And I'm not, you know, Knicks fans are going to go crazy on me for saying this, but I think it's...

If they do finish with the best point differential, it ain't going to matter because the West is going to win the championship because the West is just too dominant.

If you look at their team, meaning the Knicks, they got some deficiencies there.

And you look at the West, they don't have any deficiencies.

So I think, you know, right now it looks good on paper, but at the end of the day, all those analytical people who look at this point differential and all this kind of stuff don't really know sports.

It's about talent at the end of the day.

What was a better playoff team, the 0-1 Lakers, who went 15-1, or your 95 Rockets, who won as a No.

6 seed?

Oh, man, I'm going to plead the fifth on that one.

But, you know what, I'm going to be man enough to step up and say the 15-1 Lakers.

You think about the run we were on.

It's like we were so freaking good, man.

You think about Shaq being the most dominant player in the game, Kobe being the most electrifying player in the game, and then you had a band of brothers just, you know, lock you down from Rick, B. Shaw, Derek Fisher, myself, you know, Horace Grant.

And that's the thing that, you know,

People always look at those teams.

It's always Shaq and Kobe's team.

But the rest of us, we knew exactly what we needed to do.

We knew exactly how to slap them upside the head and get them in line.

And you got to have guys on your team that are not afraid of the big dogs.