Stugotz

Sam appreciates writers.

You've written for 50 years for the Miami Herald, which he just mocked while waving a magazine from a defunct age.

I mocked those dinosaur papers, yes, because it died on our watch, Sam.

Magazines and people reading and literacy in general died on our watch.

Not the New York Times.

Not the New Yorker.

Brunson's on the cover, but Sam would have for 25 years just about hated everything you are.

And you, for about 25 years, would have hated everything Sam was because you think that the Knicks are the biggest rival the Heat has, not the Celtics.

Can you explain to people the difference between the Knicks and all the other teams?

Like when you say it feel like four to the Lakers, if I tell you New Yorkers, if I say, hey, you can win this many championships in Yankees, Mets, Jets, Giants, or the Knicks can win one.

Like in terms of what this team means to this city, it means more than the others, does it not?

But if I say to you, I'm asking you to speak on behalf of all New Yorkers, but don't you think that a Knicks championship feels to New York with memories and everything else because it's been passed down through generations more than a couple of Super Bowls, more than if the Jets and the Giants won in New York?

It's the team that's actually in the city.

It's the team that actually lives inside of the city.

Well, but it also, the thing that I'm trying to make spring from both Zaz and Greg Cody is the fact that if you've been caring about basketball for 25 years, the Knicks have been on the wrong end for a quarter century of all the Miami jokes.

They are losers to the doormat of Miami for 25 years in basketball since Miami stole Pat Riley.

Like, it's generations now, but...

When Allen Houston was making one of the worst memories in the history of Miami sports against Pat Riley, the Knicks have had precious few runs through these 30 years.

And right now, Sam, you're up and the heat down big.

And you two, who care about the Miami Heat, you must enjoy speaking from on high to them, hey, we passed you over the last five years.