More of a Sure Bet: Brunson or Wemby?

Mike Wilbon· Host0:00

[upbeat music] Pardon the interruption, but I'm Mike Wilbon. I'm hosting today's show from a Sprinter Van in a parking lot in San Antonio.

Tony Kornheiser· Host0:10

I'm Tony Kornheiser. Blink twice if you're being held against your will. Blink twice.

Mike Wilbon· Host0:16

Are you kidding? This is so cool. I feel like I'm on a police stakeout. Like I'm in the, you know- Mm ... the Dick Wolf show, FBI, where they're staking out and we're hearing everything. We got surveillance. Very cool.

Tony Kornheiser· Host0:29

Yeah. That's great that you feel that way, 'cause you're in a van. Welcome to PTI, boys and girls. [laughs] In today's episode, the Golden Knights top the Hurricanes, Aaron Donald contemplates a comeback, and Charles Barkley joins us for five good minutes. But we begin today with tonight's game one of the NBA finals. The Knicks are at the Spurs. Wilbon, you're in San Antonio for this. Victor Wembanyama has become a great player at just 22. Jalen Brunson has been a great player for a few years now. He's 29. Wilbon, which star is a surer thing heading into these finals, Wembanyama or Brunson?

Mike Wilbon· Host1:04

Well, Tony, since I talk all the time about experience and at least being late in the playoffs to sort of proving yourself there first, to some degree, you don't have to have won, but you have to have been there, that would suggest the answer has to be Brunson. Because he, he's had the disappointment the last couple of years of, you know, playing in important, huge games in the playoffs, and the Knicks getting better,