{"id":461929,"date":"2026-05-27T03:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/461929\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:36:11","slug":"karl-anthony-towns-trolls-cavs-with-ig-video-caption-after-knicks-sweep-to-clinch-nba-finals-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/461929\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl-Anthony Towns Trolls Cavs with IG Video Caption After Knicks Sweep to Clinch NBA Finals Berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Karl-Anthony Towns had the perfect caption on his <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DY0jXnDxLQR\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Instagram post<\/a> after beating the Cleveland Cavaliers to advance to the NBA Finals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The New York Knicks star simply said, &#8220;analytical,&#8221; a subtle troll of Cavs head coach Kenny Atkinson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">After the Cavs went down 3-0 in the series, Atkinson said Cleveland was &#8220;analytically&#8221; ahead in the series since the expected score stats favored his squad. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I think analytically, I think we&#8217;ve won I said three-out-of-three, I think we&#8217;re two-out-of-three in the [expected score]&#8230;we&#8217;ve won two-out-of three,&#8221; Atkinson told reporters. &#8220;And I know you&#8217;re looking confused, but&#8230;if you believe in process and all that, take that layer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t throw that on them. I see it for myself. We have this feeling, I have this feeling, then I can go to our analytical table&#8230;last night, the expected score was like one point or two. Us shooting way below expected, them shooting way over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The numbers might have leaned the Cavs&#8217; way in a few games, but that didn&#8217;t matter as New York dominated the series, completing a sweep on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Towns isn&#8217;t the first to troll Atkinson after his analytical comment, and it might take a while for the head coach to live down his words. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karl-Anthony Towns had the perfect caption on his Instagram post after beating the Cleveland Cavaliers to advance to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-461929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}