Knicks Venting Session After Maxey Steals Game 5 | The Bill Simmons Podcast 

Especially after Melo was bitching about the Nuggets giving Jokic his old jersey number. But now he's showing up courtside at Knicks games trying to glom onto their current success. Dude, make up your mind!

@@daveclark8337 You nailed it. Melo always has been a weasel. Basking in Knicks glory when he anchored them in mediocrity. Yeah, I know it's Dolan's fault. But Dolan had to go out and get the most Dolan-y star he could find. Melo was it.

@@David-iv6jeto hear melo say he didn’t force that trade on his podcast 🤣 these players keep trying to rewrite history on their podcast

@@t-god2439 Really wish Melo would just own up and admit that he wanted the most money under the biggest spotlight. People would respect him more if he was honest about where he was at back then. Well, that and admit that he didn't want to share that spotlight with Jeremy Lin.

@@Kagemusha08 once I heard melo take on his trade from Denver. It just bleed into all his other takes about his career and playing days for me. After that I could hear the delusion in all his accounts

I wonder if the other piston's fan feels the same way.

Suppose when your org is that dogshit you have to root for other orgs at this time of year

@@CurseMonstr like you in a few years^^

@@CurseMonstr Three rings since your last one big man

​@@ReyLentlessunderrated

? What embidd has been doing this series has been unacceptable.

The Flagrant on Mitchell Robinson during gm 3 was dirty but seeing Fennessey cry about the Flagrant last night was a bit cringe. In today's NBA is that a Flagrant 1, sure but an ejection? Insane. His feelings are hurt, I get it.

Fennessey sucks. More nerdy white guys who have never played a varsity sport.

They've let nix and celts play bully defense like I haven't seen in a decade.

The call last night should not have been a flagrant. Trae Brunson initiates the contact and Embiid is making a play on the ball.

Ew Lowry. I hate his flopping ways.

@@MrBacchus18 Guessing you've never had him on your team?

@@SalKhayer I've had Marcus Smart he is probably comparable

@@MrBacchus18 Cut from the same cloth. I can't stand Smart, but I'd imagine I'd love him if he played for my squad lmao tbh it's players like that who imo make the best role players

Duddddde.... I couldn't stand him when he was on the raptors. Now that he's on the sixers I love the guy

Imagine rooting for that ahole embidd.

It made me want Embiid leg to fly off ala the Simpsons episode with the severed leg kicking football... Like if the game winning shot of game 7 is his leg spiking the ball back into the hoop I know I will be cheering.

​@@ThePenitentSquirrel seek decency

@@manzoman96 tell embid that.

@@Gboi8 rent free

For real. I'm not a fan of either, just here for the basketball, but damn super fans sound so wild with the one sided bias, especially Lakers and Knicks fans.

or maybe its the 200 years of historie between these cities and a flopping cry baby who decides to try to kill everyone on the other team

Or that your team is dirty AF? Could that be it? What have you won?

Round 2 is the finals for sixers fans

@@denigsterBrunson hasn’t tried to kill anyone has he?

I’m in Pittsburgh and Embiid is my favorite player. Though Maxey is now a close second.

Right?? I actually thought it was one of the worst flagrant calls I’ve seen in a playoff game since it appeared to be a play on the ball. This guy is a clown or maybe just a Knick troll.

Calling that a flagrant but Mitchell Robinson not getting a flagrant for throwing Oubre to the floor shows how stupid the flagrant foul rules are

Shittiest performance and dude had a triple double lmao

No they wouldn't. Nobody wants Embiid. Dude plays half a season then disappears defensively in the playoffs. Dude is low key a team killer..building around him just for the inevitable injury. Next year Dude will have ALS and ovarian cancer play in 20 games and 6ers fans will be like "MVP material"

Couldn’t believe they called that a flagrant. Trae Brunson initiates the contact and Embiid making a play at the ball. And yes, throughout THIS YEAR, Knicks fans were begging to get Embiid in a trade.

Oh like one legged mcstroke face isn’t being a dirty ass player? Give me a break. Nobody on the Knicks yanked down a guy going up for the ball. Or threw elbows. Or pretend he’s clumsy and trips and falls on whoever is on the floor or kicks people in the nuts. Embiid is as dirty as draymond. It’s a shame because he is already a great player he doesn’t need to be a dirty fuck also

You're on the list of comments I'll come back to after Knicks win in 6.

@@scottyc3833 ...oh, it DOES hurt. 😂🤣😂

Scotty🤣🤣🤣🤣

It's gonna hurt more when Embozo asks for a trade in a month

That was ridiculous. The officiating in this series has been WAY TOO one sided.

That'll come when the Sixers get knocked out.

I believe CR is on vacation

Congrats. You described every fanbase 😂

Yep, every other fan of every other team in the league loves every single player. Rainbows and Unicorns.

@@user-hu2ed8oe8m Legendary comment.

They have such a rich history and winning tradition.

Every fan base is “Ego-centric”. What makes Knicks fans so different?

Me too bro. Embiid deserves better.

Apparently he's just faking it and it's a pr move. Knicks fans don't even try to make sense

Hahah exactly. And you gotta love this GRIT AND GRIND fans absolutely begging for Embiid to get suspended for a game. That was a horrendous flagrant call. Brunson initiates contact and Embiid is going for the ball.

Game 2 was a ref aided win. Even the NBA had to admit as much.

Yes! 😂😂😂😂😂

Yeah Bill is on a tier by himself.

I think it was too tbh, embiid paused and then smacked him in the face didn't look like an attempt on the ball at all imo

If you don't think that was on purpose, then you must think Embiid is the most uncoordinated player in the NBA. He missed the ball by 3 feet. Brunson had the ball at his hip when Embiid hit him in the face.

@@Golferperson1 embiid literally stole the ball from Brunson a possession or two before that using the same down swatting motion. Clearly playing the ball for anyone who isn’t delusional

Brunson pushed embiid backwards so when embiids hand came down he was moved out of place..not intentional should have been offensive foul tbh

⁠@@goseeaboutagirlEmbiid isn’t a spiteful girl and he always goes for the ball like he did the last 2 times he stripped and blocked Brunson, this time Brunson ran right into Joel hip and forced his arm down onto Brunson. Joels reflex had no choice but for his arm to go down.

I noticed too they are hacking embiid retry good

Lmao - Embiid and Maxey have no business being in the same sentence as Shaq & Kobe 😂😂😂

​@daviday87 Maxey and Embiid are right around the same age Shaq and Kobe won their first. Ever so slightly older

@@davidpingitore6563 if you can’t see the limitations of Embiid-Maxey after last night’s game I don’t know what to tell you.

Feel the same way

you can tell the same story about game 2

Maxey also missed a bunch of free throws earlier… so it’s just one of those night in the multiverse when you think about what could have been

Tyrese Maxey did more than just be part of a "shit storm"

@@danielxcha7276. Except this one was earned. game 2 was a gift 🎁

Those things tend to happen at Maxey Square Garden.

Embiid loves playing the villain

I'm saying. This was a bad look and pretty unclassy, moreso than the Embiid fouls were. This guy threw a tantrum with name calling like a toddler.

Facts. And the fact you have a Knicks fan on here talking about Embiid is picking on people is the softest shxt I have ever heard.

I hate that shit😂 like all the players in the league will roll around like they’ve been shot and the second the refs start to review it, they’re up and laughing on the bench. Makes no sense

@@andone3466 like bro, they fucked the flow of the game up with no consequences. Like if it wasn’t a flagrant in real time, why we changing it because it’s in slow motion? They even do it off flops, like no contact at all. That HAS to be delay of game

@@domlitt9001 guarantee if they start calling that the players would stop 💯

I know! What the F is Bill talking about

Yeah the guy whose playing on one leg with one eye who just played a career high 48 minutes because the Sixers cant go 2 minutes with him on the bench without the team collapsing, who had a 15 rebound 5 block triple double is a bitch. Sure guy. The real bitch is Brunson who fans right into his hip forcing his arm down then lays on floor like he was shot in head, until the foul was upgraded at which point Brunson hops up completely fine.

Lol don't know where you got that from but good one bro. Damn! There's no way all knicks fans are this dummb.

Yeah that was utterly ridiculous lmao it was clearly not intentional but clearly Sean is just a super homer so it makes sense that he would be this whiney about it

Gotta fit the narrative man. Embiid is a dirty hack 🙄 Seriously, don’t let a Knicks fan and a Celtics fan tell you how to feel about him.

Yeah brunsun is a complete foul merchant and while embiid definitely got him bill simmons could watch Jayson Tatum shoot someone and later say "Tatum was innocent"

That hit to the head woulda been a ball block except for being pushed off and back 3 feet.

Is he serious with his analysis of the foul on Brunson? That absolutely was not a fragrant

we can only hope

naw, we are out here, gotta go get game 6 on the road.

I've been arguing this for a bit now, Tyrese Maxey should be 1A right now - his speed is second-to-none and he will let it fly from anywhere. When they go through Joel Embiid is slows everything.

Maxey is amazing. Haven't seen dominance from a little guy like this simce AI.

Yeah, I don't understand how much they're relying on just dumping the ball to the big man, that's not even putting pressure on the nix defense. Let Maxey run them a bit ragged and see if they're still crashing the o-boards as effectively as they have been.

@@ab-hv8qs Kyrie???? Dude dropped a 40 ball in the finals. Curry every year. Brunson literally just dropped 50

​@@Shortballa11eh i dunno, never thought those players (curry, brunson, kyrie) as dominant. They are crafty and skilled, but so much of their skill depends on their shots falling. Maxey is reminding me more of Iverson and prime Derrick Rose. When they want it, they will get by you to the basket. The best you can do is have a big guy come to help and challenge the shot. Also in this series, i think Maxey is clearly out playing Brunson. I'm a Knicks fan and i love Brunson, but I can admit that Maxey is showing that he is a class above Brunson.

Joel manned up in Ot. I was surprised

He's a front-runner, when things are going well for them, he's always on the up-and-up.@@thewalruswasjason101

You Philly fans are nuts The knicks have nothing but dogs on the team

To be fair, the Sixers were the second best team in the East when they were healthy.

Oubre does too and embiid does for about... 2 quarters

It wasn’t the most dangerous foul, just dirty & sad.

@@davidscholten6707 it didn’t even feel intentional to me, like I said, no wind up but just brain dead timing, not dirty imo, just unfortunate mostly

​@@davidscholten6707 it wasn't dirty though, he was going for the block, he just timed it wrong. Knicks fans cry about that foul but are fine with Robinson actually throwing Oubre go the ground. Make it make sense

@@dcschuck7 I’m confused by the calls too. I like that they aren’t automatically awarding fouls since the all star break but it doesn’t feel consistent.

he shot 50% from the field and scored 40 points..............

@@peterludwig7721Yeah but you know like we all know that Brunson is a fraud flopper who is giving free points after literally just jumping backwards into defenders or flapping his arms after a clean block like vs Oubre. It’s tiresome when that flopping guy keeps a scowl like you can’t touch me, because it’s like true, nobody is even allowed to breath on you.

I legit was stunned...was on the phone with my brother who is a 76ers fan and we went quiet for like 30-seconds after the shots.

Exactly what I was thinking. 8 points in 8.9 seconds. The fact that it was also against the Knicks and at the Garden makes the parallels all the more devastating for Knicks fans.

I was waiting for this comment lmao. The parallels are insane, actually surprised that bill never mentioned it.

@@lanoa111 he mentions it once very briefly but I was legit surprised it wasn’t the main comparison of this entire conversation.

Please we all know what Pascal did to him. You can't say shit.

Embiid actually got the ball on that too. Lol

What?! Lol. Look at the replay. He’s nowhere close to the ball.

Even on the replay you see him still trying to make the and 1 but Embiid grabs his hand to stop him. it's only then that he falls and stays on the floor acting like he got punched on the nose. He's always grabbing his nose. It must be a trade secret for elite floppers that are smaller in size.

Freedom of speech

ya i would not say the knicks have outplayed the sixers. really the story of the series has been the sixers outplay the knicks through the vast majority of the game and then get the doors blown off them in the couple minutes embiid goes to the bench. they're +48 with embiid on the court this series and -46 with him in the 35 minutes or so he's been off, the idea they've definitively outplayed the sixers just doesnt seem accurate

Because there's more to basketball than making shots dumbdumb.

As long as they hate Embiid. The ringers have been hating on him before he even played his first game. I'm sure that video is still on their RU-vid page.

Sean is literally brought on AS a Knicks fan dude lol. Take a media literacy class

@@jdriscoll2000 "a media literacy class"... that shit goes hard🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

That wasn't intentional.. knicks fans don't even try to make sense

If there was a re-draft, that would be the top 3 picks. Desmond Bane might be #4.

Starks is my fav Knick, but he was nowhere near maxey level. Also Starks was a hothead that got into unnecessary troubles. He was like a wild dog you unleash, not a player you looked for leadership. Ewing did great job keeping him im check. Maxey is playing with class and heart, like a true leader. If sixers are being smart, they should give the keys to Maxey and build around him by trading Embiid. Treat him like Iverson in early 2000s. Maybe trade with Magic for Wendell Carter Jr and Jonathan Isaac and picks.

No, you're definitely right, more of a generalization.

If only the rest of the sixers weren't as soft as they have been, compared to the 90s nix.

​@@ab-hv8qsHow can you sqy this when Embiid's finally gotten a good coach and a reliable number 2? It's the first time he gets carried like this and they should already trade him and build around his reliable partner? This isn't the celtics where everyone can get it. When Embiid sttuggles it's always considered his fault.. But now This is more like the nuggets in the sense that we have a number 1 and our number 2 is clutch enough to hit game winners or in this case send us overtime. This is their first season as 1 & 2 and they have 60mill to improve the roster in the off season. It wouldn't make sense to trade him now. I'd give it 2 more years before I'd even consider it.

Raps fan here. I can attest to that. And for all these people who are calling for OG to guard Maxey he can't. He is too slow. Hoping that IQ becomes our Maxey. He just got to get stronger this off season & learn to use the glass/blackboard as tool like Maxey does. I already like how is play making is coming along w/ Darko's system.

Calling his migraine due to his bell's palsy, "staged" is ridiculous. Seriously. Ridiculous. The guy had an interview hiding his face and everyone was wondering why. He decides to share the reason why and now all of a sudden it was a pr move. These glorified fans people call sports pundits don't realize they're the actual clowns. It doesn't take any amount of effort to spout this much nonsense and then call yourself a professional.