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NBA Finals Game 5 Preview: Can The Knicks End It? Are The Spurs Done?

6/13/202655 min

Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN's Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to preview Game 5 of the NBA Finals in San Antonio. The guys break down if the Spurs are maintaining their belief, how Mitch Johnson can better manage Victor Wembanyama’s minutes and if they need to adjust their attack. Plus, can the Knicks close out San Antonio after the high of Game 4 and who will be the NBA Finals MVP? 

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Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Speaker 10:00

    So you're saying with Hilton Honors, I can use points for a free night's stay anywhere?

  2. Tim Bontemps· Panelist0:04

    Anywhere.

  3. Speaker 10:05

    What about fancy places like the Canopy in Paris?

  4. Tim Bontemps· Panelist0:08

    Yeah. Hilton Honors, baby.

  5. Speaker 10:10

    Or relaxing sanctuaries like the Conrad in Tulum?

  6. Tim Bontemps· Panelist0:13

    Hilton Honors, baby.

  7. Speaker 10:15

    Ooh, what about the five-star Waldorf Astoria in the Maldives?

  8. Tim Bontemps· Panelist0:18

    Are you gonna do this for all 9,000 properties?

  9. Speaker 10:22

    When you want points that can take you anywhere, anytime, it matters where you stay. Hilton. For the stay.

  10. Brian Windhorst· Host0:28

    [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the Hoop Collective podcast. We talk about the NBA, which we're doing on Friday afternoon. Joining me from the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, where I am not today, will be tomorrow, it's Tim Bontemps.

  11. Tim MacMahon· Panelist0:46

    Hello, everybody.

  12. Brian Windhorst· Host0:47

    And joining me from a different area in the Frost Bank Center, in front of a different finals backdrop, it's Dan McMahon.

  13. Tim MacMahon· Panelist0:54

    Howdy, partners. I'm, uh, in the room where the winners will be tomorrow night. I think that's fitting.

  14. Brian Windhorst· Host1:00

    Oh, really? You're calling your shot?

  15. Tim MacMahon· Panelist1:02

    I'm just saying I'm, I'm a winner. Bontemps is in the loser's room, and I think this is appropriate.

  16. Brian Windhorst· Host1:09

    Okay. Just you might have to walk that back. Um, so game five coming up on Saturday night. Um, I think we should-- Well, first off, um... well, I'll start here. You know, the Knicks are three and O in closeout games this year, and their average margin of victory in those games is,

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