Zach Lowe

Well, they had a little bit of a track record that the Knicks don't have at that point.

Despite all the concerns I just laid out about Robinson's injury and Kat's foul trouble and all of that, I can't believe I'm picking the Knicks.

I am a believer, Mo.

I believe you can talk to me about the Cavs let go of the rope, the Hawks were a paper tiger who actually took two games off them, and the Sixers were good for a hot second against Boston, and Embiid got hurt again, and they lost their mojo.

I get it.

Might be recency bias.

I might be weighing too much what they did to those teams who had limitations that the Spurs certainly don't have.

I believe in what the Knicks have done.

I think they have found something magical in the last month.

And I think they're going to ride it to the first title in 53 years.

I'm picking Knicks in seven because I think it will be a long series.

I think road teams can win game sevens now.

We've seen it over and over again.

And

as much as they have the Robinson thing unknown going against them and the ripple effects that presents for Cat's foul trouble, I just feel like they're ready for this.

I feel like they're ready for it, that they have found this version of themselves that I'm not even sure they knew they had.

And the other thing they have going for them that at least counteracts a little bit of that is they're super well-rested and the Spurs just had to dig super deep to beat the Thunder.

And I'm not really worried that the Spurs are tired.

They're young.

They're deep and all that.