Stephen A. message to Knicks ‘You better not lose to the Atlanta Hawks! 🗣️ | First Take
On First Take, Stephen A. Smith and Brian Windhorst debate whether winning the play-in would mean more for Stephen Curry or Kawhi Leonard and discuss the New York Knicks’ upcoming series against the Atlanta Hawks in the 1st round of the NBA Eastern Conference Playoffs.
0:00 Would winning the play-in mean more for Steph Curry or Kawhi Leonard?
7:42 Eastern Conference playoff storylines
8:30 Should the Knicks be on upset alert vs. the Knicks?
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SA contradicted himself at least twice during the kawhi conversation. He shouldn’t do any topics involving kawhi
The hawks going lose nba WILL not allow the Knicks to go down before rd 2
“His availability has been his CRUTCH”? What? A crutch is something that one leans on for support, for help. Availability has been his weak point, his flaw, his shortcoming, his liability, his deficiency, etc. SAS is plagued by his pathetic need to be articulate when he just isnt
Kawhi Should Be First Team All NBA & FIRST TEAM FOR DEFENSE 💯 WATCH THE GAMES
Knicks so bummy 😂😂😂😂
Hawks are actually a threat Schneider did good rearranging n keeping Trae young deal under control respectfully n they are geling
Atlanta is a good team, but the money's on NY so why pretend the Hawks have any real chance outside of maybe one game?
I cant stand dudes being talked about negatively because of injuries
SAS is gonna remember Jalen's name once the hawks beat the knicks.
warriors best option is to lose the first play in game and hope to get lucky and get a top 5 pick that would make a giannis deal more appealing or trading for any other player or even drafting one the top guys in this draft for after steph retires
Josh Johnson he said this a couple weeks ago 😂
Giannis is either going to Timberwolves rockets Knicks or Celtics or heat
They will Knicks might get swept 🧹
Go Knicks period. Hawks are going to be physical with Brunson and Bodega. They're wings are going to attempt to use their size on Brunson, and capitalize on everything that collapses when we dont rotate correctly or share the ball. Dont play with them. Bodega gotta be Bodega Kat cornerstone of the block. Organized Chaos..Go Knicks.
Funny thing people forget before he got hurt kawhi when he was with spurs he was smoking golden state
Kawhi shouldn't even be allowed to play this season. Have we forgotten about all that already?
Who tf is Josh? LOL
Kinda weird to me that the hawks would choose the Knicks over the Cavs for round 1. Like I get that Donovan was resting, but they genuinely demolished the Cavs last week. You’d think the confidence would be greater in a rematch, rather than the Knicks who are kinda surging rn
“Look at that skip!”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hawks since all the trades are a top3 team in the east, think they are 19-4 ; knicks have the toughest road to a finals, if knicks are serious, they can 4-1
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These sports analysts is out of touch. I can't take these shows seriously.
Lets Go HAWKS!!
ESPN doesn’t care
Clippers need Kawhi , DG , and Mathriun healthy
Hawks in 6! Upset alert!
Knicks in 5 or 6
That Hawks-Knicks game didn't go to OT. As usual, reporting is sloppy.
Wow! James Harden is responsible for the Clippers comeback season, do your research! Only 3 games missed folks, Kawhi is still having a quality season. ❤❤❤❤
No, it would be awesome for the Knicks to lose in the first round!
Haha Stephen A rewatch the raptors 76ers from 2019 an tell me again that klaw didn’t do anything the raps got to the conference finals carrying an injured klaw. That cat channeled the power of one legged Duncan and was the #1 reason they beat those 76ers.
Btw one of the best conference runs tied with Indiana last year and 6 seeded rockets from 94
Kawhi to GSW in the offseason