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Stephen A. Smith says Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks "saved the NBA" by winning the championship over Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs. “If the Spurs win the championship, the entire NBA is evolving its scheme around how do you knock off the alien, the 7-foot-5 alien from France. How do you do it? Well, guess what? Now that a 6-1 guard, who's not the most athletic above the rim dude — that ain't his game, just savvy, brilliant as a basketball savant, footwork extraordinaire — that guy at 6'1 led this team."

Tim Bontemps names Jalen Brunson the greatest free agent signing in NBA history “He is the greatest free agent signing in the history of the sport. He's not LeBron James, he's not Shaquille O'Neal”

"You cannot play Jalen Brunson one-on-one in any era of basketball." - Kenny Smith

Victor Wembanyama when asked about greats like Michael Jordan and LeBron James taking years to win their first ring: "It’s extremely painful. It’s painful, but I’m not running away from that. I’m using that to fuel me. I'm sure all these guys you named, they're not satisfied with being eliminated in earlier rounds or not making the playoffs, and I'm not satisfied with not winning."

Kendrick Perkins says Jalen Brunson is already the greatest Knick of ALL-TIME and ranks this squad as a top-5 team in NBA history.

"I’m too cool or whatever but I damn near cried. I really did... I shed a tear in the back. I couldn't believe it. This is the greatest moment I've had in my career.". - Stephen A. Smith

CRAZY STAT: The Spurs became the first team in NBA Finals history to have a double-digit lead in the 1st quarter of FOUR different games. ​The Knicks still won the series in 5 games.

Jalen Brunson admitted he had to completely shut down his social media during the playoffs after the Knicks fell behind 2-1 to Atlanta “Honestly, after that is when I shut down social media.”

Shaq apologized to Charles Barkley for doubting him on Jalen Brunson being the greatest free agency signing in NBA history. “Charles, I owe you an apology. You've been saying for the past two years that Brunson has been the best free agency signing ever. Now, it is. Now it becomes that.”

KAT: "You got to get it out the mud sometimes. And if you from New York City and you know what it is to get it out the mud, everything ain't going to be pretty, everything ain't going to be the way you want to go. You going to get punched in the face and how you going to keep to your game plan is going to be a testament to who you are."

Shaq says Wemby needs to hit the weight room this summer after losing to the Knicks: “As good as he is, he’s going to need to get stronger. Because when you become a dominant big man, people are going to force…. So, I don’t know what he’s going to do this summer, but he definitely needs to get in that weight room and get stronger.”

Wemby: “One of many things I learned is the margin of error is very, very thin. Our domination stints are absolute. We absolutely [dominate] for most of these series, but our errors, our mistakes are punished so hard that we can't have ups and downs like this so much. You know, the ups are okay. The downs is the reason we lost.”

Victor Wembanyama on what will motivate him the most this summer after losing the NBA Finals: “What I'm pissed about is that there's probably a hundred games before we can be back in Finals. So, I don't know how to say it in English, but I'm going to have to, you know, hold that inside of me and slow down and wait, and execute for a hundred games.”

Mitch Johnson had a powerful message to the fanbase after losing the NBA Finals: "I’m glad that they’re sad. I’m glad that they get mad when we lose or want us to be better, that’s a part of being a fan. And the support, and we feel the love and the support from everybody in the 210 and across the world, we have the best fans in the world. And again, we’ve been at it for nine months, we wanted to win this series like the other ones and we didn't, and we’ll be just the same people. We’re not going to flinch, blink, waver. We’ll be here until whenever we get the schedule out and figure out our next game and we’ll be, we’ll be better."

Q: “Coach, Jalen Brunson scored 45 points. What do you wish your team had done differently defensively against him?” Mitch Johnson: “Make him score less points.”

Jalen Brunson: "My confidence comes from my work ethic. Every time I had the ball, all I could think about is all the hours in the summer... making this a reality. So, whenever I had the ball, I'm just thinking about just me alone in the gym."