00:00And I've been an NBA fan for every day and every month and every year of my life.
00:06And I can tell you that in the history of my fandom, of the league, and not just the New
00:11York Knicks,
00:11as the individual team that I love more than any other team that I love,
00:14I've never been as disappointed and, I don't know what the right word is,
00:21disappointed, crestfallen, upset, and I feel like a jilted lover at her wedding
00:27when the groom doesn't show up because he met somebody better.
00:30Shame on you, NBA. Shame, shame, shame on you, NBA, because we deserve better as fans.
00:37Not just Knicks fans, by the way, as fans of the sport, fans that have supported you
00:42when you decided to take your sport to streaming services, fans that supported you
00:47when we were trying to find the heir apparent to Michael Jordan, fans that supported you
00:52when you allowed the league to become a bunch of floppers, fans that supported you
00:56when you decided to double down on load management, fans that supported you when you made the threshold
01:02mark to be eligible for postseason awards, only 65 games out of the 82 they're supposed to play,
01:08fans that supported you when ticket prices got out of hand, fans that supported you when games
01:14took forever to play, fans that supported you when you turned the league into a pop-a-shot competition.
01:20And we sat back as fans of your sport and thought you would do the obvious right thing,
01:26not based on fandom, based on what our own eyeballs saw.
01:31Wambiyama committed a flagrant foul against Jalen Brunson, that star-on-star crime.
01:37It's not like we're talking about, the greatest player in the sport, against the last guy off a bench,
01:41and you're going to protect the bigger star.
01:43We are talking about the biggest star in New York against the future face of the league
01:48in the alien, Victor Wambiyama, who's a dirty player now, all right?
01:53And we all watched her with her own two eyes, and there's no disputing, A, that it was a foul
01:58first,
01:58and B, that based on the rules of the NBA, that it should have been a flagrant foul.
02:04And yet you took all day yesterday and most of the night last night
02:09and decided to do what I guess we should have predicted you were going to do,
02:14protect what you think is your new golden cow, and that, of course, is Victor Wambiyama.
02:19It also proves to me as a fan that you don't think Victor can control himself
02:24and not commit yet another flagrant foul,
02:27because had the NBA done the obvious thing, the right thing,
02:31and retroactively given him a flagrant one for his body slamming and head palming
02:36and disgusting wrestling-esque behavior against Jalen Brunson in Game 3,
02:43then the next flagrant foul earns an immediate suspension.
02:47And you guys are so worried to death that if you suspend Victor Wambiyama
02:52that the series ends that moment, what is so wrong with the New York Knicks becoming NBA champions?
03:00Why is that such a crazy thing for you to get through your thick skulls
03:04and how good that would be for the health of the sport of basketball?
03:08And I'm not suggesting you should rig it in favor of the New York Knicks,
03:12but I am suggesting that you let the entire NBA fan population down
03:18by waiting the entire day, waiting the entire night,
03:23and then barely even put out a press release.
03:26I saw it through Shams, who's got, I guess, a spokesperson now for the NBA,
03:31saying that they don't think it rose to the level of flagrant one.
03:36Well, that's not a flagrant one foul.
03:39I'd like somebody to tell me what is.
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