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Learn more@americanexpress.com withamx thanks for listening to the Heard podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports radio and noon to 3 Eastern, 9am to noon Pacific. Find your local station for the herd@foxsportsradio.com or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching Fox Sports Radio or FSR. Now let's get this party started. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Here we go. It is a Friday, Another Amazing night for LeBron James. Luca, Steph Curry, you're trying to put the old guys to bed. They're staying up late. They're closing up shop late. Good show today, Buckeye Coach Ryan Day next hour, Dion Dawkins, Rick Bucher, we got a lot of stuff going on today. So, yeah, you know, where they care about the NBA, LA and New York. That's pretty good last night, right? Pretty good, yeah, that was pretty good. Well, we had said yesterday this was going to be one of the 10 to 12 games during the regular season that's going to feel like a playoff game. And that's what it felt like. And it really was kind of symbolic of where both teams are at. The Knicks lost even though they outplayed the Lakers. So now The Knicks are oh and 10 against Boston, Cleveland, Golden State, Lakers and OKC. And they outplayed them and they get beat by about 15 a game. Now last night Rui didn't play Austin Reeves, not 100%. So they were more fully staffed in New York and they outplayed the Lakers. But Jalen Brunson had to play out of his mind. All your starters for the knicks are playing 40 minutes and the Lakers didn't play particularly well and they won. And this goes back to something we've talked about. Tibbs and the Villanova guys and Jalen Brunson. Culture only gets you so far. I mean, Harbaugh created a new culture with the Chargers and then they went to the playoffs, Pittsburgh Steelers last decade, great culture. Can't score in big games. Culture has limitations. And Carmelo Anthony talked about something last night. He said basically what Luca is providing for LeBron now, these great up the court passes is what LeBron was doing to AD. So it's really freed LeBron James game up. Last night, only Luka and LeBron played particularly well. But you know, I just think Austin Reaves, Luka, LeBron, you have three play initiators. One can be bad every time in New York. Jalen Brunson's bad. Good luck winning. Jalen Brunson's great, good luck winning against good teams. And the sign of a very good team. And you can no longer deny it. Sorry, Charles Barkley with the Lakers. You don't even have to play well to beat a good team. And LeBron makes everybody better. I mean, Jackson Hayes does not have an NBA move. He does not have an NBA post move. He's lob guy and he's shooting 73% since the All Star Game, the deadline, 73%. He's an NBA guy. Say to me he's a skinnier version of DeAndre Jordan. He's lob guy. And when you get LeBron and Luca, who are tremendous passers, there is great value there. But he's not a true big. How about Gabe Vincent? Who? Gabe Vincent. Huge threes in overtime. Again. What you watched last night is really the truth about both these teams. The Lakers now are so good and have so many offensive weapons that Rui cannot play. Austin Reeves doesn't play well. Team doesn't play particularly well. Luka didn't shoot that well. And they beat a very good Knicks team where all their starters played 40 minutes and Brunson was unbelievable. So I think, you know, and J.J. redick, clearly, J.J. leBron and Luka are speaking the same language because it's very much a team that goes with a hot hand. It's very much a team offensively that is tweaking and kind of going with the flow this thing. It was a great, great NBA regular season game. And it was a team that absolutely can get to the Finals. I don't think they can beat Boston. We'll see Saturday night in a preview. Lakers, Celtics, we'll see. I don't think can beat Boston. I don't think they can beat Cleveland, maybe, but I don't think so. Two best teams in the East. West is much, much better top to bottom. But it was a game between a team I think can get to the finals and challenge for a title against a team that needs another big piece to even get to the Finals. Let's be honest. Last night, Nick shot 23% from threes. The Knick shot, you know, 39% from the floor. And. And that's with Brunson going off and a healthy unit. It. They just. They're just missing a piece. And again, I said this yesterday. It's great clarity. If you're a Knicks fan, I don't want to hear about officials. You're all for 10. It'd be one thing if you were five and five against the best teams. Euro for 10. And the Lakers are just getting better. I wonder if the Knicks are getting slightly worse because of all the minutes. Tibbs has the starters playing. And here's the coach after came down to scratch, you know, a lot of tough plays that, you know, we couldn't get to, a loose ball, you know, things like that. And oftentimes that's the difference. So. But overall, I thought, you know, the first three and A half quarters, I thought, very, very good. So obviously we have to close out better. Yeah. And the other thing is the Knicks really fight, scratch and claw for baskets. They really do. They work their tails off. They play hard every night. Did you notice last night how often the Lakers, they get kind of easy hoops, like, it's not a very good set. They don't quite look organized and they just get baskets. And again last night, just like, hey, Gabe, Vince, it's open. Take a shot. LeBron talked about that after the win in overtime about just everybody on this roster. Luca and LeBron are the stars. Everybody matters, though. There's no such thing as non key players on this team. Everybody is key, you know, and everybody steps on the floor, has a role, and. And they. And they go in and match that. And I thought. I thought our bench gave us a great lift once again. And Gabe was, you know, single him out. He was spectacular. You know, his play both on. On the defensive end and obviously with a shooting, and we need it. So we'll get a little bit of a preview potentially of the NBA Finals. I have Boston. I think they're going to meet either the Lakers or OKC in the finals. But this idea. Charles Barkley, I'm sorry. Lakers are good. They're more interesting. LeBron and Luca is magical. It's only getting better. Luka is still not shooting great. He's still. He was so inactive for so long. I don't think he has his legs quite under him yet. He looks a little lighter, a little quicker than he did a week ago. That's what I can see. Not shooting great. He's having trouble. First step, getting quite as open as he used to. But he's Luca and he's a savant offensively. But this thing's only getting better. They're going nowhere. I mean, again, Rui's not playing Austin, Reeves, not 100%. It's working okay. So I feel like I've led with these two guys for the past week. So now let's get the Stephen Curry. And this is the way, you know, don't forget, you want to know the. The tours that made so much money last year. Bruce Springsteen, Madonna and the Rolling Stones. You guys can put the old ones to bed. But once again, there's a reason that when LeBron and Steph play on like Christmas or in a big Saturday night game, it's the highest rated game of the year. These guys are still great. Sometimes they get bored, sometimes they're not pushed. I felt LeBron and AD kind of like treadmill to nowhere. But now you give Steph Jimmy Butler, and the show is back. If you didn't see it last night, he had 40. They won again. Third game, four nights. Steph with a bad ankle, but he still put on a show. You do have it in single digits, and that was the goal when you were down 22. Steph from Mid court. Oh, come on. Did he ghost him on that, too? Oh, my goodness. Kirby from 45ft. Yo, this dude is an alien. What did he just do? Every night this week, different city. He's putting on a show. And listen, the showmanship warriors are back. Oklahoma City's really good. It's about defense. Boston's really good. It's about roster construction. The Nuggets are about fundamentals, and it's. The Cavs are about efficiency. Warriors are about the show. And the NBA's always been better. When it's got a show, it can be the Heels, it can be Shaq and Kobe, Katie and Steph. But when you go to watch Steph play halfway through that game last night, those Brooklyn fans, they weren't rooting for the Nets. They were. They were Steph fans. And fans show up early to watch his warmups. That's what a star is. You always feel like you're two to four seconds away from seeing one of the greatest plays in basketball history. And, you know, I'm watching him last night, and we love to bury the old guys, and they always have something left in the tank. They always do. I mean, Jayson Tatum had 34 points last night, and nobody outside of Worcester cares. Steph's playing Brooklyn, and New York City's a buzz. And here is Steve Kerr after Steph just had an incredible trip. Put on a show in every city does. It's. It's amazing. Just the. The show that he puts on, the. The joy that he brings to so.