The Dan Patrick Show
Hour 1 – Cavaliers Collapse in Game 1 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals
20 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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We're digging into the biggest surprises of the season, and I'm looking back on some of my greatest playoff moments.
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That's how personal it got. Wow. Then after that game seven, Marquis coming to me, he's like, you know I love you, dog. You know it's all love. This was just playoffs. This was just basketball.
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Chapter 2: What happened in the fourth quarter of the Cavaliers vs. Knicks game?
Great win by our guys, and obviously we don't get it done if Jalen Brunson doesn't play like one of the MVP guys in the league. He was phenomenal. He did what he was supposed to do tonight. Definitely helped us get the win.
Social media was killing the Knicks. Oh, you had all that rest. Cleveland came in here, two game sevens in the playoffs. You're playing like this. You're not going to be going to the finals. Social media never forgets. So when you're putting it out there. But I still was amazed. As I'm watching, and the Knicks go on a 30-8 run, and the Cavs don't call a timeout.
At some point, I just want to break your momentum.
Chapter 3: How did the Cavaliers collapse after leading by 22 points?
I have to do something where I go, okay, come here, come here. Let's gather here. Let's do what got us a 22-point lead. Because it felt like they forgot all about that. And, I mean... We've talked about James Harden. I don't know how – history's probably not going to be kind to him from the standpoint of big games. And he's certainly not big game James.
And what we've seen so far – and he's a liability out there. Like, he has to give you 25 to validate being on the floor because he's going to give up 35, or in this case, 38. All righty. What other poll questions do you have there, Dylan? We've got a couple other ones, Dan.
This one's got a little tongue-in-cheek, but if this had been Game 7 of the Timberwolves series, would Anthony Edwards have gone and shaken their hands with down 22 with seven minutes left? That's snarky. That's good. He might have. Hey, we're down 22 in the third quarter. I'm going to go shake your hand.
By the way, James Harden, his sixth game with more turnovers than made field goals this playoffs. How many games have they played? So six out of 15? Does that sound about right? Two seven-game series than last night? That is a recipe for disaster here. Yes, Paulie?
You know, when it got to overtime, I thought the little three-minute break before overtime, the Cavs would calm down, focus, and take charge and steal it back. I thought the overtime was going to go the opposite way. Yeah, I didn't. Sometimes it takes so much energy to come back from 22 down. How much energy will you have going in?
Had that game been in Cleveland and they did that and you go into overtime, it might have been different. But the garden was the garden last night. Late.
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Chapter 4: What were the key moments that led to the Knicks' comeback?
There was a while that it felt like a wake. Not a week, just a week. And then all of a sudden it came back to life. And then all of a sudden you go, boy, Cleveland is not going to come back from this. And imagine this. As Dylan has pointed out, as he's our resident gambler, he goes, I had the Cavs and the Moneyline last night.
When you're up 22, which means you're up 28 and a half, you can't lose that. I had the money line, so that was a travesty, but I then immediately felt for the people who had the Cavs plus six and a half, because the game, all right, everything falls apart. You're tied, you're going to overtime.
You're like, all they have to do now is still just cover the six and a half points, and then they put up three points in overtime and lose by, what, 11? Yeah, yes. Because Dylan was saying he had the money line. You're up 22. Now you never want to go, hey, this one looks good.
Chapter 5: What role did Kenny Atkinson play in the Cavaliers' loss?
Inevitably, you have somebody who tells you, hey, that's a great bet. And then all of a sudden, it's not. But imagine having six and a half and the Cavs. And OK, we blew it. We're going into overtime. We can cover six and a half. Maybe we lose by three or four. And then all of a sudden, you lose by 11. Yes, Dylan.
I have a stat from Evan Abrams at Action Network, and it was, how rare was the Knicks minus six and a half cover? Favorites of six plus points who trailed by more than 20 at any point and trailed by more than 10 to enter the fourth quarter were three and 379 against the spread the last 20 years.
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Chapter 6: How did Jalen Brunson perform during the game?
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And, you know, the number of people who were talking to me or about me and did I blow this? Did I miss this? Is my source wrong? My source was too good on this. That was part of the problem because it was a month ago when I was told the paperwork is done on Nashville.
But my source then said it will take a couple of weeks because they don't know if they'll be playing an 18 game schedule or 17 game schedule. And then you have to wait for the official vote, which was a mere formality. So Nashville is going to get the Super Bowl in 2030. Minneapolis is going to get a draft. I'm going to guess Buffalo will get one as well.
Cleveland's still holding out to get a Super Bowl. So you start to see some of the musical chairs here where you want to get yours. If it's not a Super Bowl, then you're going to get a draft. Chris in Syracuse. Hey, Chris, what's on your mind today? Hey, thanks, Dan. A couple comments on last night's game.
Yeah, these playoff series have generally started with a bang, and, yeah, the Knicks withstood a big opening punch from Cleveland. And I guess people were paying up to $53,000 for tickets last night at the Garden. And, yeah, Cleveland coming off of a tough-fought seven-game series definitely hurt them down the stretch. And a real treat watching Brunson as well as Mwembe.
Both are so unique as players in different ways, and I really can't think of a top player They both add a lot of intrigue to these conference finals, and I hope they're on a collision course with each other. That would be awesome. Wait, who is spending $53,000, Chris? I don't know. Somebody told me that $53,000 was the max ticket.
I think it was for front row seats for a game last night at the Garden. I would think you'd get to shoot layups for that kind of money, sit on the bench. Yes, Marvin. I do love the people that you haven't seen all year there. Lenny Kravitz was there last night, Dustin Hoffman. I've seen you guys all season long. Conference finals, they're there. Yes, Dylan.
Lenny Kravitz is always wearing the exact same thing, too. It's the same weird glasses, like some sort of rug carpet type shirt. But I looked in the – I think the get-in price, like the lowest, was in like the $700, $800 region. Yeah. I can't criticize Lenny Kravitz. To look the way he looks and the shape that he's in, I can't fault him. He can wear whatever he wants. He's Lenny Kravitz.
Is he like 60 years of age? He does not look it.
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Chapter 7: What were the implications of this loss for the Cavaliers moving forward?
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They're all part of the family. There's so many spin-offs because they're all in the family, especially the Jeffersons.
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Chapter 8: How did social media react to the Cavaliers' performance?
And look, I don't want to be hypocritical because I did give the Cavs credit. They took a swing to get better this offseason, and then they brought in James Harden, thinking he might be the difference instead of Darius Garland. You know, this is one game. But we keep saying that when the previous series where it's one game. Well, they came back to win both of those series in seven games.
You can't survive if he has another one of these games. This is one of those where you're going to look back and say, if we took that game one, now we got the Knicks where we want them. Playing defensively in more ways than one game two, maybe a little bit tighter, we can take this series back to Cleveland. Now we got a chance to win this. I think this is more than just one loss.
This feels like one and a half. Zach in Knoxville. Hi, Zach.
ADP, thanks for taking my call. I hate to pile on James Harden, but one, just seeing him at 37 and the way he's moving is just making it that much more impressive what LeBron's doing at his age. And I just want to... I ask you, why do they switch on screens that aren't even hard screens?
It seems like Kenny Atkinson's kind of dropping the ball there as far as not letting Dean Wade get through, quote-unquote, the screen. Well, I don't know the defensive philosophy of Kenny Atkinson. If you fight through picks or you switch, certain teams have certain philosophies there. It's just I want James Harden on an island. And then if you get help, Brunson's a great passer.
You're going to get guys open. Yeah, Paul. Not the island of Manhattan. That's the island you didn't want him on last night. Well, it felt like he was on the island. Island of Manhattan with all that space. Yes, Mark. He keeps playing like this. He's going to be on the island, the Bahamas, Cancun. He's going to be somewhere soon. I'll give you a bloop bloop on that. David in Ohio. Hi, David.
What's on your mind? Hey, Dan. Got a stat of the day for you here. Entering Tuesday night, NBA playoff teams trailing by 22 or more points in the fourth quarter were 1 and 594 all time. The only team to ever come back before the Knicks The 2020-12 Super Bowl against the Memphis Grizzlies.
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