Fat Joe has caught a case of New York Knicks fever with his hometown team on the verge of advancing in the NBA Playoffs for the first time in a decade.
Joey Crack joined Stephen A. Smith on ESPN’s First Take earlier this week and the ecstatic rapper is confident the Knicks will get past the Cavaliers and be able to take down the Miami Heat in a potential Eastern Conference Semi-Final battle if the Heat happen to eliminate the heavily-favored Milwaukee Bucks.
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“We killing Miami if they come. Oh no we are,” Fat Joe said. “I see them clicking on all four and what’s so crazy the fact that Randle get hurt, it let Obi and all the guys off the bench — Quickley — and they built this confidence. And it all started when we brought in [Josh] Hart.
“Brunson doesn’t get the credit he deserves. He didn’t make the All-Star Game. Brunson is MVP. The Knicks haven’t won in 20 years. All of a sudden we winning it’s because of his poise, his winning mentality.”
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Fat Joe believes the Knicks will ultimately end up making the Eastern Conference Finals with the team’s first NBA Finals appearance since 1999 and first championship since 1973 within striking distance.
“I got us at the third at the Eastern Conference Finals and you never know,” he said. “I know if Miami come our way because Giannis is hurt, we got them boys. And Miami, I’ll be there Friday club E11VEN.”
As far as the Western Conference, Fat Joe is going with Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets but is weary of the defending champion Golden State Warriors possibly going on another run.
“When people know how to win and they start getting that momentum, it’s a scary moment,” he said. “You gotta knock ’em out the box… The whole West got a problem if them boys keep winning.”
The New York Knicks will look to close out the Cleveland Cavaliers on the road in Game 5 on Wednesday night (April 26).
