Show Notes
Tom Haberstroh and producer Anthony Mayes are staggered by the proliferation of star player injuries in the first week of the season.
How exactly did Leon Rose and World Wide Wes turn their connections into a Knicks championship? Can they keep this delicate tightrope act together to run it back?
Yaron Weitzman joins the Illuminati to discuss his New York Magazine story on the unlikely friendships behind New York’s rise, from a Camden shoe store to the franchise-changing bet on Jalen Brunson.
The difficult decisions to fire Tom Thibodeau and trade Donte DiVincenzo tested the Knicks’ family-business approach, while Karl-Anthony Towns’ stalled extension talks and James Dolan's looming specter haunt the beginning of the season.
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