Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Reverse 9/11": Celebrating These Knicks Title Vibes, with Desus Nice
17 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What unique celebration does Desus Nice share about the Knicks victory?
Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
Sundress, no underwear. Just cheeks moving from side to side, respectfully. You know? Respectfully. Respectfully with consent. Right after this ad. Yo.
This is, uh...
Is that Jalen's Chipotle order?
That is... Purple Doritos. There's a lot going on on this table. Are we where we are rolling? Okay, great. Have you opened a bottle of champagne recently, Desus?
Not to my knowledge. Not to my knowledge. I don't want to be in classy situations like that that often.
I think me opening this bottle of champagne would be a dangerous idea.
It's a lot goes into it. You got to take the foil off. You got to take off the little mesh cage, the muzzle. That's right. I don't know the proper wine terminology. The dental dam. The dental dam. There you go. Shout out to Dental Dams. We're bringing those back this year. Nick's Dental Dams for everybody. So, Deezus, thank you for being here, by the way. Thank you for having me.
We thought of you immediately. Can you describe the things on the table?
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Chapter 2: How do food and culture intertwine in the Knicks fandom discussion?
And this is like the idea that Chipotle, you know, people look down on Chipotle, but these are what these athletes are doing on their way to a championship. So that means you could... That is my favorite part. You can order Chipotle now and be like, this helped them win a championship. It's going to help me.
Once you win a title, everything you did before winning that title is now justified as a strategy for championship contention.
Not just for the athletes, but also for the viewers. Like, whatever bar you went to, you got to keep going there. Whatever drink. If you got the nachos from the most disgusting dive bar in New York, you better keep eating those nachos. We're running it back.
I also like that this table, the food on this table looks like what you'd imagine, like, OG Ananobi is eating, Because whenever he shows up in public, it does look like he himself is. And again, what Newark can't relate to this. It looks like he is absolutely just stoned out of his mind.
Talk about the difference Coach Brown made and how he brought you all together. Listen, that was me when I moved to LA and I found that you can get 10 grams of weed at the dispensary without any limit. Just sit in there, just stoic. So people were just like, I think he's introverted. No, he's smacked.
No.
He smacked in front of George Stephanopoulos. That's a high level of smack. Like, that's the kind of smack you'd get in, like, O2 off a weed. I don't even think that's legally allowed anymore. Yeah, that is the, uh, if I don't move, the T-Rex can't see me level of stone. That's the kind of high where you can see your heartbeat.
Y'all listening don't know what I'm talking about, but those of you who've been there, like, yeah. Yeah, those are the good days. By the way, just to explain what's happening here, um,
Our staff is full of Nick fans that never felt an ounce of conflict about being a Nick fan. Which is to say, I can't celebrate this the way that everybody on our staff has been celebrating it. The way that you have been celebrating it, which I want to get to. We have exclusive footage, I think. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly of Jesus. And so, we're a local show. We are.
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Chapter 3: What emotional connections do fans have with the Knicks and their history?
Everybody feels like that. The funniest part is just like we always kind of, you know, as Nick fans, we're always like one day we're going to win it. We weren't ready for this. We were not ready for the fallout. Like just the vibes, the niceness.
Yeah. The thing that every Nick fan always said, which is that winning a title would be different here than it is anywhere else, it was underestimated.
It really was. Also, every Knicks fan, and I'm guilty of this, every time people are like, what's going to happen when the Knicks win? We're like, we're going to burn down the city. And it's literally the opposite. Everyone has become so nice.
So I want to establish this. Yes, were there a couple of school buses that were set on fire? Yes. Yeah, I mean, it happens. Was there a cab that people got on top of and I felt bad for the driver? Yes. Yes. But as a matter of like, what was the betting line on how much damage there would be versus just the utter... delirious sharing and feeling of community with your fellow man.
I mean, it got to a point where you had to stop yourself. And if you had destructive impulses, you couldn't go through it. Because me, myself, personally, I wanted to steal the Intrepid from the West Side Highway. I wanted to drive it through Times Square. I don't care that it's landlocked. And I said, you know what? We're not going to do that. We're not going to steal a warship.
But if there was any day where the security guard might have been like, Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah. Let's take it first. Even NYPD was standing down. They were just like, NYPD was like, hey, I don't see anything.
And I was trying to think of like why it is that all of this feels specifically like this. I think it's not just the Knicks, although it's very clear that no team would make New York City feel this way. And as Yankee fans, both of us, we've experienced so many parades. We have, but it's nothing like this. Never felt like this. Nothing like this. The thing that I think about
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Chapter 4: How does Jalen Brunson symbolize hope for Knicks fans?
I think even more recent, if you remember the winter we had. Yes. The ice. A historic blizzard. Historic. Like people were looking on social media like, How could you survive? Do we have to survive the great Trader Joe's debate? Are you allowed to stockpile Trader Joe's food in your house? Are you a terrible person for doing that?
People wanted to kill dogs for their owners leaving dog feces on ice. And New York just... We felt like we were down bad. I remember those couple of days. People were just like, I'm not going outside. It's too cold. And I also remember people were saying... As cold as this winter is, that's how hot the summer is going to be. And the Knicks have just taken that to the next level.
So now it's not, you can't even have fear of missing out. You have to be outside.
Correct. Correct. It is the sort of thing where like the entire city feels like, you know that day, and I will be the most unapologetically heteronormative I will ever be on this show. Let's go. The first day when, like, you see a sundress. Oh, yeah. The whole city is wearing a sundress.
The whole city's... Sundress, no underwear. Just cheeks moving from side to side, respectfully. You know? Respectfully? Respectfully with consent. God damn it. The kind where, again, heteronormative, you make eye contact with someone else as this person walks by in a sundress, and you say, salute my shorts. It's just incredible.
It's the sort of day when you're walking around and suddenly you see Elmo's head on a spike. Yes. Jesus, can you describe what this video shows?
The video shows New York City taking its revenge on a traitor. Also, a fraud who has been lying about his age for years. You know what? We've exposed him. We exposed him like a Dominican pitcher with a bad birth certificate. Elmo, you were in our hearts. And then you said, I want both teams to have fun. Bro, you got to pick a side. You can't be halfway in, halfway out.
And that's why you're on the pike. You're no longer on Sesame Street. Elmo, you got to do something big for the city to get back in our good graces.
How does Elmo come back from this? Because Sesame Street, for those who are not familiar, that's New York City. That is. San Antonio, the Alamo is not a character. It's not. On Sesame Street.
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Chapter 5: What insights do Desus and Pablo offer about the Knicks' impact on New York City?
Yes, we need Elmo to go Japanese World Cup fan. Here we go, Elmo. You got to start from the bottom and work your way back in our hearts. But as a sports fan, the game that I will always consider like a core memory was Game 4. Mm-hmm. I've not talked about this on this show since it happened.
I watched with my friends from high school at the community room of my parents' building in Murray Hill, and we watched on a projector that my dad had brought, and my entire family, they're all Nick fans. It's rare to feel like you are responsible.
Mm-hmm.
for what happened in a sporting event like that. But that was, that's the unmistakable feeling. Yes. Is that everybody did this together.
It's every little thing. What shirt you wore, what you drank, where you watched it, what were you doing with your hands when certain plays were going on? Did you hope enough? And it's little things like that that doesn't sound real enough. But did you have enough faith in your Knicks? Because as Knicks fans, we've had our hearts broken so many times that that tends to be the default.
And this team is like, no, we're no longer like that. And game four was like the biggest litmus test as a Knicks fan. It was like, do you believe in this team? Because the team was literally like, whether you believe in us or not, we are winning. and get a board. And again, game four, it still hasn't really hit me.
Like every now and then, listen, I'm still watching every piece of Nick content I can see.
Even as somebody who can't, who doesn't have the ability to feel it the way that people who never gave up on the team have felt it, watching people watch game four is like 75% of the last week for me.
Just love it. I love every blurry Instagram video. I love just any kind of photo, just watching the reaction. But then also remembering the actual moment. The largest comeback in the history of the NBA Finals. In the history of the NBA Finals. Why would you allow the Knicks to have that statistic?
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Chapter 6: How do the hosts reflect on their personal experiences as Knicks fans?
And it's just like I like imagine that's your first Nick game you ever watch. And the tip in happens. And now you run out the bar and you high five and strangers, different ethnic groups, different social high five and social senior citizens. It was such a moment. And I mean, like low key, I'm glad I got to take part of it. But also, like you're saying, watching other people.
Like, how much it meant for other people and, like, older people, younger people, everyone. It was just such a great, pure moment.
And I think there is, like, there's this tendency in sports, and I get it, to apply purity tests. Can you identify Ronaldo Bachman in a lineup?
Yes. I mean, but that's the thing. It's like, if everyone's having fun, do you always, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What was Ronnie Turioff's stats on Tuesday? Like, you don't want to do that. Yeah, what were you doing when Chris Dudley tried to throw a basketball at Shaq? We'll tell you. Which basketball player on the Knicks is nicknamed the shot maker and the heartbreaker? Ron Baker.
Ron Baker. Ron Baker. The Bangs.
The Bangs. Tyler Kolek. I like to think there's a little Ron Baker and Tyler Kolek.
You see it. You see it. That's why those are my guys. That's also what I love about the Knicks winning because people are just like, oh, it literally felt like the end of an Avengers movie because people are just throwing out any random person that ever played for the Knicks. And, like, there's somebody there with either the jersey or simple tear coming out or it might be them.
Yo, Maciej Lampe might be on a parade float on Thursday.
Woof.
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Chapter 7: What humorous anecdotes illustrate the chaos surrounding the Knicks' celebrations?
Yeah.
The fans came out. So people were just like, I got a chance to watch the game with you. The amount of people who were just like, I didn't have anywhere else to watch the game and I wanted to watch the game with other people. And that, like, I'm just watching people, looking around and it didn't become about them being there with me. Like, everyone's like...
Got their fists to their mouths and just watching. I could do like a couple of jokes here. But even I'm going through it. And I was like, I got to be happy at this watch party while my team is just being utterly gutted at halftime. And there was like positivity. And I was like, yeah, I'm going to be positive. But that comeback.
So, again, I'm Filipino. My dad, my brother, my family, they're all Knicks fans. And do you know how hard it is for a Filipino person to curse a Filipino basketball player? It's like Dylan Harper. Yeah. The amount of curse. I never thought I'd see that. I mean, luckily, we have Jordan Clarkson representing on the Knicks. But who's now asking Twitter, apparently, what should he name?
What borough should he name his child after?
Didn't spell borough correctly, but you know what?
You're a Knick. You don't have to spell it. That's how we're spelling it now. He really didn't spell anything correctly. But nonetheless, I hope he chooses Staten Island.
Why?
Well, I mean. Is that the best? I think there's some poetry. Little Staten Island Clarkson? An island that used to have a garbage dump on it. Shot the fresh kills. Now being sort of renovated into the image of, of course, the real saviors of the next season, which is the Wu-Tang Clan.
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Chapter 8: How does the conversation highlight the significance of community in sports fandom?
Nixon 5, it's not just something from that night. Now it's still a thing. Like, you pass people and they're like, Nixon 5. It's not... Before it was like... It's now God bless you. Yes, it is. It's our new roll tide. I cannot wait to just be annoying and be like, Nixon 5.
The way that New York feels, it takes us to Saturday.
Yes.
You may have heard that the Knicks are... NBA champions. That's the rumors. But we have video of Desus reacting to that particular event in his life.
Yo! What y'all doing? What y'all doing in here? What y'all doing in here? Yes, I saw some school buses that were unoccupied and no cops were around them on Times Square. And I was like, let me get to the box. I was like, let me get my Pablo on and investigate this. Let me find out what a pre-incinerated school bus looks like on the inside.
Yes, and then very quickly, my PR training was like, boy, you're about to catch such a felony charge if you don't get off this bus right now. So, you know, I got off. But I had to see what was going on. I had to be around the people. There's something about... It was like a rolling chaos in Times Square.
That was... For those, again, who are not watching, you have missed just... the spirit of Times Square made manifest in an empty abandoned school bus.
There was like five school buses in a row right there on 42nd Street, like right in front of, you know, former iconic Senor Frogs. You couldn't leave Times Square because all the subways were shut down. They weren't letting anyone in or out the subway. So everyone's just kind of milling about.
And I even sent a tweet that it felt like a street fair, like a very rowdy street fair with no prune juices or any kind of natural beverages. And just looking at people, everyone wanted to climb on top of the buses and jumping on top of the buses. And after that, it got a little darker. But people just wanted to just celebrate and just do stuff. And jumping on top of the buses was fun.
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