The Pacers have alligator blood and never die

The Pacers are just, they, they, they have alligator blood, they do not die. And they, they have a belief in Tyrese Halliburton... I really think that it's like, they, they are built for this type of situation where it's like, you've seen it two times in the last three games where they're just gonna keep going at you and they're not gonna give up.

Cavs fans poking the bear by calling Tyrese Halliburton overrated was a dumb move

Then you poked the bear to start the game. That was the dumbest move that the Cavs fans could have done is to chant overrated at Halliburton before it got started. Why would you do that? He already knows that his fellow players talk about him being overrated. You don't have to remind him of it, that's gonna piss him off a little bit.

The 2024-25 Pacers look like a better version of the team that made the Eastern Conference Finals last year

The Pacers went through the wars last year and they got a little bit of scars and now it does feel like they're a different team making these big time plays and never being out of it... they look like the team in that Eastern Conference finals that what the Pacers are making everyone look like [now].

The Knicks won the title because they have the most 'grit'

I said, Charlie, that's her name. I said, they have grit. They have grit. It's like in that game four, when when, when Brunson went into the huddle, he said, Hey guys, smart basketball. This is, we can do this... They don't [give up]. That's when they say, alright, we can win this thing.

Former sports agents are the best choice to run professional teams

I don't know much about the business side of like basketball, but I know that the, the GM or the president [of the Knicks] is a former agent [Leon Rose]. And I know that that Golden State run was run by a former agent too [Bob Myers]... I think this is gonna be the, the beginning of, we're gonna start to see sports agents start to run teams a little bit. I think they know things that about money and about all that stuff.

Winning a championship feels better than the 'emptiness' Joe Mazzulla describes

Coach Mazzulla in his press conference said something about feeling empty when he won and feeling empty when he lost. ... I'm not a psychiatrist, but winning feels better. It's just my take.