The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Brunson’s Brilliance in the Clutch, the Celtics’ Uncertain Future, and Milwaukee’s Giannis Decision With Chris Mannix
13 May 2025
Russillo starts the show with his thoughts on the Knicks and Timberwolves both taking 3-1 leads (1:30). Then, he’s joined by Chris Mannix to discuss how far the Knicks can actually advance, what the future looks like for Boston, and what a trade package for Giannis might look like (25:41). Plus, Life Advice with Kyle (1:09:09)! Is it weird to use my roommate's shower? Check us out on YouTube for exclusive clips, livestreams, and more at youtube.com/@RyenRussilloPodcast The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Chris Mannix Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, Mike Wargon, and Jonathan Frias Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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On today's episode of the podcast, we will dig into New York taking a 3-1 lead in the second round of Eastern Conference playoffs, what this means for the Knicks, how they've been the tougher team, and of course, a disastrous close to this game for the Celtics and also the Tatum injury. A little bit on Ant's big night at Golden State, and we've got Chris Mannix, who is...
Going to give us all of the lottery perspective that we need, as it reminds me that he was in the room last night for the ping pong balls. But we do a ton of stuff on the playoffs and also some speculation about a new home, perhaps, for Giannis this summer. And life advice. New York is where we start. They're up 3-1 in this second round series with the Celtics.
They are one win away from their first Eastern Conference Finals appearance since 2000, where they lost to the Pacers in six games. Ewing, not super healthy in that series, played in four, really only played in three games. But look... I'll go through all of it, much like you've heard me talk about these two teams all season long.
When Boston was down 0-2, as bad as it looked with the blown leads, they'll probably get game three. They get game three in dramatic, well, not even dramatic fashion, in dominant fashion. And then I was like, you know, they'll probably get through this series. They'll get a 2-2. Who knows? Maybe the Knicks get another one in this thing. Four straight against them? Probably not.
Boston likes to make this hard on themselves. And when it comes down to it, I think they'll get through this. Now, with everything that happened last night, I certainly no longer feel that way. We'll get to the Tatum part of this a little bit later.
Despite the regular season part of the evaluation where the Knicks struggled against the best teams, how these two teams matched up against each other, knowing that Detroit probably gave New York more of a series than we were expecting.
But at the same time, sometimes I think when we think one team is better than the other one, we expect them that they're just never supposed to lose a playoff game in that specific series, which isn't entirely fair and historically inaccurate. But now that we've seen this play out like this and you want to talk about toughness, New York is the tougher physical team. They're tougher mentally.
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