Becky Hammon is a great coach and clearly knows basketball. But on that day she made the “dude“ line, it wasn’t just that she got it wrong. It was the disrespectful way she responded when Kendrick Perkins suggested that Brunson was indeed “the dude“ that Hammon insisted the Knicks did not have. Also, not for nothing, she rejected that premise, with this weird “blaccent” (“he too small”); the entire exchange was very weird and offputting and that’s why, unlike other pundit hot takes, this one stuck — and why people are demanding an apology.