Zach Lowe

Ian, nice to see you.

Always nice to see you, Zach.

It's good to do this in person.

It's nice, right?

Yeah.

Never has, maybe not never, seldom has so much attention and scrutiny been paid to

How a player shakes hands, high fives, shoots free throws.

What's he wearing on his hand is Mitchell Robinson today.

The Knicks were coy about his status for game one.

No one has really reported how he hurt his pinky finger slash fifth metacarpal, whatever we're talking about.

What do we expect for game one?

Looks like he's going to play.

Yeah, it's going to be really interesting.

I think they need him to be 80% productivity-wise and whatever.

No one knows what his pain tolerance is going to be, but I think they need him to have a good series in order to win.

And I saw Shams reported today that, I don't know if you've reported this, but forgive me if you have, that it was something at his house, like an injury occurred at his home.

I will say...

there doesn't seem to be a lot of anger or consternation from the Knicks people.

There was initial, people went through to the worst possible scenarios, like did he punch a wall?

Was it something stupid?