Knicks Championship Ring and 2026-27 Repeat Title Odds

You just said, Greg, you had a chance on social media. You've seen the ring and what it looks like there for the ceremony tonight there for the Knicks championship from last season. Yeah, it seems like all these teams are doing the ring within the ring, so that's not new. Yeah. But it seems like the ring within the ring is a ring, and then on top of the ring where you can go into it is Madison Square Garden. So it's like that's the second part of the ring. Yeah, these teams do an amazing job with this stuff, as they should. I mean, winning a championship in sports is just nothing like it. These franchises are being sold for billions of dollars, Joe. I mean, the San Diego Padres were just sold for how many billions of dollars? I mean, the one thing in this country that it's not debatable, with all the things that are debated with politics and everything else, is that live sports is just still the king. you know i mean the rights fees and and everything that goes around with it it's so many people want to see their teams and so many people want to see their teams win so i am all for however teams want to celebrate winning that championship because it is just so hard to do and uh you know so you know obviously credit to the knicks and everything that they're doing i personally you know watching the season last year play out my father-in-law and my brother-in-law are both big knicks fans so hearing them talk about it like all the time you know of course i'm i i'm not like immune to the nba i'm watching the finals and all that stuff but i really never thought the Knicks were going to win the championship until it got like halfway through the NBA playoffs and I was like oh man I guess this is possible but going into the playoffs there was not one piece of me that thought that Oklahoma City wasn't wasn't winning like I like I I was doing shows every day where Oklahoma City was on pace to win like 75 games oh yeah it's just a matter of who loses to Oklahoma City and then when they lost I'm like wow I guess anything can happen and and yeah look I think going into this year the Knicks are going to be one of the favorites but I think Joe again please correct me with the NBA when I'm wrong if I'm wrong about any of this stuff but it's rare to go into a season where I think automatically people don't think the team that won the championship is going to win again it feels like that with the Knicks it feels like everyone thinks somebody else is going to win usually the team that wins is like they're the defending champs and you think that there's a good chance that they could win again uh i mean certainly the Knicks are one of the favorites to win the East and they have a really good shot to do it but I I guess because a lot of people didn't see that coming last year maybe that's why going into the season a lot of folks think again it would be OKC or San Antonio or something or even Philadelphia for that matter well yeah yeah I listen Nick fans will tell you that you know They're expecting a three-peat here. But the reality is the Knicks are not – this was not a team built for a dynasty in any way, shape, or form. But they were a team that was put together, and a lot of people don't realize that Jalen Brunson, he took a huge pay cut a couple of years ago in order to be able to – because he was doing max deal, and he took way less money in order to give the Knicks a chance to sign some guys like Cat and Ananobi and bring guys in there that he wanted to win. And now that he won, I promise you he will never take another pay cut for the rest of his career with the Knicks. So, but it paid off. And that's exactly what this was. They were more than happy, I think, to win the championship, do it for, you know, New York, great story, but this was not, this is not OKC where Sam Presti and company built To be a dynasty for the next 10 years or like Golden State, like no, no, no.