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So it’s the New York Knicks vs. the San Antonio Spurs for all of Adam Silver’s marbles, rings and trophies. After record-breaking TV audiences justified by great games, the Spurs joined the Knicks Saturday in the NBA Finals will begin Wednesday night in San Antonio. Then after two games in Texas, the best-of-seven heads to New York a week from Monday.
Expect the Garden and the city to be wild, particularly if President Trump holds to his plan to attend. (If the Finals reach Game 6 on June 16, things will get really interesting. That afternoon, France, home of Victor Wembanyama, will play Senegal at MetLife Stadium. Will Wemby attend? He’ll have plenty of time to make it across the river. World Cup begins at 3:30 p.m.; the Finals at 8:30 p.m.)
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If that makes you feel irrelevant in New York sports, you have a case. At this point in time, the Brooklyn Nets are the most irrelevant franchise among the nine New York area teams from the Islanders in the east to the Devils in the west, It can be argued that the Liberty currently is more relevant. In the NBA, they may not be the most irrelevant — Thank you, Vivek Ranadive — but not a lot of people are opening conversations this summer with the line, “how about them Nets?!?” Considering how well the Knicks are playing, don’t expect to hear it for a while either. As we’ve written, the Nets are spending millions of dollars on “generational fandom” — getting New York kids while they’re young — but having the Finals in New York is going to likely trump that (sorry.)
So, we wait: to see what the Brooklyn brass from Joe Tsai and Sean Marks down to the scouting staff are planning for the franchise’s next big milestone: what they will do in the NBA’s second straight consecutive generational draft: stay put, move up, move down, acquire a second first round pick, etc. Lottery luck is a sunk cost — very sunk — right now, but don’t expect them to dwell on it.
There’s been little intelligence on where they stand, but you can get a bit of a hint of how the process works if you got back to last year’s SCOUT docu-series, the fourth…
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