Vincent Goodwill

Phil Jackson, hey, should we trade for Giannis?

Maybe we should trade for Giannis.

You traded five first-round picks for Mikael Bridges in their own way for the better part of 30 years.

So to say, hey, this is the only thing that matters is winning this championship, if you're the Boston Celtics, yes.

If you're the Los Angeles Lakers, yes.

You know the phrase that we say sometimes in black households, we go somewhere new, act like you've been somewhere before, don't embarrass me.

That's what we say.

That's what we should be saying to the Knicks.

They act like they've been nowhere before.

They've never been nowhere.

Sometimes the clearest answer is the answer that's in front of your face.

For one...

When they lost game one, that was it.

I don't know what Kenny Atkinson is saying.

I don't know if he shows up for game five and if they hang a banner for the analytical.

I don't know what the analytics said about last night, right?

But there comes a point in every playoff series, especially when you lose a game in devastating fashion.

Like, you knew in 2018 when J.R.

Smith didn't realize time and score and gained one of the finals.

And that destroyed LeBron's best singular performance of his career.