Knicks vs Celtics: A Stirring Victory for the Underdogs

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00:00And to win those two games down 20 each, I was losing my mind at my house.

00:05I was screaming, swearing.

00:07I couldn't sit down.

00:08My dog was barking.

00:10My daughter high-fived me 3,000 times in two nights.

00:13It was the greatest thing I've ever seen.

00:16It's crazy.

00:17Look, for two decades, what did we have?

00:20We had Lynn Sanity, a G-leaguer, coming up and lighting up the garden for a couple weeks.

00:25That was it.

00:25And that was it.

00:26That was the end of it.

00:27Anything else was sort of just strange.

00:31Nothing was great here.

00:32But look, last year's team, I think, captured the hearts of the city.

00:36It was sort of an overachieving, hardworking team.

00:39And I don't think this year's team had that.

00:41Like last year, it was crazy.

00:43This year, they didn't have it.

00:44It was a team that a lot of money was spent on it, a lot of draft picks, a lot of doubts about what this team would be.

00:51And then I think maybe a little of the Detroit series, but really these two games in Boston,

00:56I think suddenly they are the underdogs again.

00:59They're the overachieving team that sort of the city fell in love with last year.

01:04And I think if they could win tomorrow and be on the verge of knocking out Boston on Monday night at the Garden,

01:12I just can't even imagine these shut down the schools, shut down, you know, government.

01:17It's going to be crazy, crazy.

01:19Yeah, it's, you know, right, wheel people into the party.

01:23It's going to be insane.

01:25And look, it already is.

01:27And I think it takes something like that.

01:29Like, I mean, it's a feel-good moment.

01:31But also, guys who were letdowns all year, you know, Mikkel Bridges had a rough year.

01:37For him to come up with the two defensive plays at the end of game one and two, suddenly he's on the back pages.

01:42He's beloved.

01:44I just think defense, effort, overachieving, that's what the city loves.

01:50And that's what this team has given them in this series so far.