What players said at media day<\/p>\n
Here are a few highlights of what the players said on Tuesday at Media Day for the NBA Finals. It\u2019s worth noting that both teams were very complementary and respectful of their opponents, no trash talking. Yet.<\/p>\n
Spurs\u2019 Victor Wembanyama on hangover from Western Conference Finals Game 7: \u201cComing back down from this is a challenge. It\u2019s not done yet. We still need to really come back down to earth and realize we haven\u2019t done the hardest yet. The job isn\u2019t done at all. So we still got about, I don\u2019t know, what time is it, like 30-plus hours to recenter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Knicks\u2019 Landry Shamet on Karl Anthony-Towns: \u201cI think he\u2019s lived through a number of different seasons within the season this year, where we\u2019ve asked him to do some different things… KAT has been kind of coming into that role. When we got into the Playoffs, he\u2019s been a fantastic facilitator, playmaker at the top of the floor for us. Been really aggressive offensively, as well. Been asked to defend at a high level, and he\u2019s done that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Knicks\u2019 Karl-Anthony Towns on what it means to help the Knicks return to the Finals: \u201cIt means a lot for my mother. When she emigrated from [the Dominican Republic] to New York, she saw Madison Square Garden for the first time and saw the energy the city has for Madison Square Garden and the Knicks. My mom, even to the day she passed, wasn\u2019t big on the NBA rules, but one thing she did know was that only the best of the best perform and play at Madison Square Garden. To be able to have this moment in Knicks history where we\u2019re back here, where New York has been hungry to be back in this Finals, it means a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spurs\u2019 Devin Vassell on the Knicks beating them twice during the season: \u201cWe feel like the Knicks have played us really well this year. We went into their house and they beat us. They beat us in the in-season tournament. They beat us last year on Christmas. We feel like we\u2019ve got to get some get-back because they\u2019ve been successful against us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What players said at media day Here are a few highlights of what the players said on Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-713913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}