Is Mike Brown still coaching the Knicks? How’s that possible!?
Should Leon Rose trade everybody and quit on the spot? Would it be better for New York to tank the season?
Dumb questions without legitimate answers!
Mike Brown
On the Knicks’ slow start and still figuring out the team’s identity:
“I haven’t even looked at 50 wins, or 45 or 52 or anything like that. I’m still trying to figure out this
team a little bit. I know everybody is like, ‘Whoa, it’s the same team as last year. New season, new team, new challenges, and so I’m not even sure who I wanna play yet, you know? Trying to figure the little things out.”
On Mikal Bridges’ shooting struggles against the Celtics:
“Mikal had three or four wide-open 3s. And obviously we want him to make half of them if they’re open. But he’s got to keep shooting. And hopefully they’ll eventually go in — sooner than later. But he’s getting the looks that he needs to get. He just has to knock them down now. And he’s got to make sure he’s physical on the defensive end.”
On Bridges and the Knicks needing to play more physically on defense:
“He’s got to make sure that he’s physical on the defensive end. And he, as well as everybody else because it was all of us, are laying on screens when we get hit, and that when we do switch, there’s a level of physicality to the switch so that they’re not able to take advantage of us.”
On what went wrong for the Knicks in the 107-103 loss to Boston:
“It was a physical ball game, and we have to give Boston credit. They had the advantage with the physicality.”
On Jayson Tatum’s 36-point performance against the Knicks:
“Jayson Tatum did what Jayson Tatum does. You just take your hat off and say, ‘Good D, better O.’ But that’s not why we lost the game. We lost the game because we didn’t handle their physicality on both ends of the floor for too many stretches that were too long.”
Jalen Brunson
On the Knicks’ progress despite starting the season with two losses:
“I think we took a stride, just not big enough strides. There’s positives and negatives to take from this game. We know what we have to do, and the things I think are glaring to us are controllable. So that’s a positive we can take from this.”
On how the Celtics helped shape the Knicks into a championship team:
“The way they were playing, and I guess how they’re still playing, kind of helped shape our team. They were obviously a dynamic force. And obviously the past couple years with injuries and personnel changes and stuff like that, things are different. We were trying to figure out how we can beat those guys.”
On Mitchell Robinson not watching the Knicks’ championship ring ceremony:
“We know Mitch is a competitor. He’s a person who wears his emotions on his sleeve … that’s just Mitch being Mitch.”
On Robinson leaving the Knicks for the Celtics:
“It’s definitely bittersweet. He’s a good friend. I’m just happy he was able to get a nice payday.”
Josh Hart
On having limited involvement in The Roommates Show’s Polymarket sponsorship agreement:
“To be honest, we really don’t have much of a say in terms of a lot of the sales and who they reach out to. I don’t wanna say we know nothing, but we don’t know much about all that stuff.
“I know they sit there and talk about, it’s trading; it’s not gambling.”
On being surprised by the controversy surrounding the Polymarket sponsorship:
“Last year, we had BetMGM. I don’t really know too much around the controversy of it or whatever. I saw some things on Twitter, and I was just like, ‘Oh, I didn’t know people felt that way.’
“I saw a little bit of it the last couple days, and I was shocked — and it might be a little ignorance on my part because I don’t know, but yeah.”
On taking advantage of sponsorship deals to pay the pod employees more:
“When it’s the pod and that, I kind of play ball a little bit because there’s other people depending on that. So it gets brought to us at the very end and for me personally, I’m just like other people are depending on this. So I play ball with that.”
Mitchell Robinson
On the Knicks’ locker room without him:
“I know it ain’t no fun no more. I know. I just brought so much light to this team.”
On feeling unwanted by the Knicks during free agency:
“They didn’t want me? Yeah. That’s what it felt like. I was like, cool. There wasn’t bad blood behind it. Man, fresh start.”
On signing with the Celtics despite their rivalry with the Knicks:
“The only thing that was kind of different was going to the rivals. But you know me, man. I like to troll. Nobody was happy with that move. But I was.”
On learning to treat the NBA as a business after years of trade rumors:
“Anything can happen, I can be traded at any moment. I was in so many of those trade talks. I’m like, ‘I just got to see it as a business. You can’t let your feelings in it.’ That’s kind of what I did.”
On his understanding of the NBA’s second-apron salary cap restrictions amid his Knicks exit:
“Not too much. But it is what it is.”
On having a more active offensive role with the Celtics:
“I’m a lot more active. Constantly moving on the offensive end. It’s actually going pretty great. I got to bring the energy.”
Knicks Rep
On using a championship-ring bait in an employee phishing simulation:
“The company had previously sent out an email to its corporate team as a simulation of a phishing attack designed to strengthen our security against hackers. MSG was recently hacked and extorted using an employee login and password obtained through a similar phishing attack. Using the rings as a lure to gain employees attention was an unfortunate mistake.”
