What's Wright - Best Of - Knicks HISTORIC Finals run, Wemby's MOMENT has arrived, LeBron's future in LA | Nick Wright

Welcome to the best of the week on What’s Right with Nick Wright. The sharpest takes, the biggest moments—let’s get to it.

The Knicks just bulldozed Cleveland and look unstoppable. Does this run feel like destiny?

This isn’t vibes, it’s math: no team has ever stacked an eleven-game stretch like this, regular season or playoffs. New York owns the most lopsided multi-game spans in playoff history and has turned elimination games into routs, which is flat-out historic.

They didn’t look like this in the regular season. What changed?

They had a midseason dip, but outside that they played at a sixty-win pace; still, nobody saw this level coming. Brunson is a true A-list playoff riser, Towns embraced a playmaking and rebounding role, OG has been rock solid, Bridges caught fire, Hart does everything, and Mike Brown’s evolution into a motion, share-the-ball coach has unlocked the whole thing.

To Knicks fans: decades of near-misses and gut punches—the Ewing fingertip heartbreak, the Heat suspensions, the 1999 magic derailed—then the long slog through bad hires and the Melo ceiling. To go from all that to the most dominant month of playoff basketball ever is pure release; you earned every second of this joy.

Wemby’s coming off his worst game and faces elimination. What do you expect?

I expect a bounce-back, but two things jumped out: his scoring is swinging with his three-pointer when it shouldn’t, and in Game Five he never found a go-to action—his makes were lobs and a putback.

San Antonio also has to build his conditioning; you can’t feather his minutes for months and then ask for forty-plus every other night. The best playoff adjustment is simple—your star plays more—Jokic, Giannis, and prime LeBron all lived there.

It also looked like the Chet matchup got in his head.

I buy that; the emotion showed and he looked spent. I think the Spurs can force a Game Seven with the crowd and whistle behind them, but I’d still lean Thunder in the series.

He skipped the postgame presser and wasn’t fined. Special treatment?

It’s odd he wasn’t fined for that or for the earlier incident; face-of-the-league status comes with answering for bad nights too. If Luka did either, he’d get torched, so consistency matters.

Windhorst says LeBron wants the Lakers to offer the max or explain why not. Is there any case for less?

If he leaves L.A., he’d need a huge cut because there’s no cap space out there; if he stays, they can go over the cap with his Bird rights, so any discount is pure generosity. What bugs me is the drumbeat that he must take less while stars across the league are cashing massive deals—he was still a top-tier performer in the playoffs, so a max isn’t charity, it’s market.

And if you’re asking him to shave eight figures while teammates get paid, that’s a tough sell; he just proved he can still be the best guy on the floor against elite competition.

Post-LeBron, where does your fandom go—Luka, another team?

I assumed it’d be Luka, but I’m actually excited to be teamless for a bit. Living in New York, I won’t hop on the Knicks if they just won; I’ll wait and ride with Las Vegas when they get a team and start from the ground floor, especially since it looks like LeBron won’t be owning one anytime soon.