Happy Super Bowl Weekend KlicKNettars! Everyone will be watching the San Francisco 49ers battling the Kansa City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII tomorrow on CBS, Paramount+, and Nickelodeon. As a longtime fan and viewer of Nickelodeon, I'm really excited to see this Big Game on Nickelodeon for the first time ever, as are other fans who dying most of all to see SpongeBob SquarePants himself perform "Sweet Victory" at the Super Bowl; finally making up for Maroon 5's mistake from 5 years ago I see? Oh and and by the way, there will be a brand new episode of FakeTV Box dropping immediately after the first half of the Super Bowl for the third year in a row on our YouTube. Of course that's not all, you see SpongeBob ain't the only one making a special appearance at the Super Bowl, Usher will host the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show in Las Vegas. He's very excited about it, so much that Apple Music made this little film on their YouTube channel regarding Usher's whereabouts, watch it in this week's Sneak Peek of the Week.
Our Inside Scoop this week concerns a different type of sport, that being basketball. You know were gonna talk about the NBA in which some teams are on a roll with the All-Star Break coming up. Afterwards, they'll try to make their push to get to the NBA Playoffs coming in April, to do so, some teams have some interesting moves by sending some of their players away in exchange for new ones. They call it the NBA Trade Deadline, but you already knew that, and some NBA fans know how it all went last Thursday.
Just to get this out of the way for all you die hard Brooklyn Nets, our Nets traded away Royce O'Neale to the Phoenix Suns in a three-team trade that also involved the Memphis Grizzlies. In return, they received Keita Bates-Diop and Jordan Goodwin from the Suns, but that was not the only trade this team. What seemed so shocking to me is the fact the Nets traded away Spencer Dinwiddie (again), this time to the Toronto Raptors in exchange for Dennis Schröder and Thaddeus Young, the latter of the two use to play for the Brooklyn Nets if you remember. Nets fans like me will see what impact these players have on the team moving forward this season, but one thing's for sure, they were not the only basketball team in New York City that got some new stuff at the Trade Deadline.
That's what this inside scoop is really about, we're gonna be talking about the New York Knicks, the last team you'd think we would every talk about on our blog. This team has been beloved by the people of New York City since they were founded back in 1946, they have had their up and downs, but mostly their downs, and it dates back to the early 2000s. Two classic moments back then 2005 DreamWorks Animation movie Madagascar poked fun at the Knicks' losing streaks, and in 2006 when the Knicks got into a huge brawl with the Denver Nuggets at Madison Square. In the 2010s, they were legit playoff contenders by obtaining superstars like Carmelo Anthony, Tyson Chandler, Jeremy Lin, Amar'e Stoudemire, Tim Hardaway Jr, and Kristaps Porziņģis, boy do I remember what life was like during that time period.
Players on the current Knicks roster right now are Julius Randle, OG Anunoby, Jalen Brunson, Donte DiVincenzo, and Isaiah Hartenstein. No offense whatsoever, but I wouldn't entirely say that these players at the same level as LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, Luka Dončić, Nikola Jokić, Damian Lillard, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Joel Embiid, Donovan Mitchell, and Jayson Tatum, yet somehow they've managed to get the Knicks to 4th Place in the Eastern Conference. At the Trade Deadline last Thursday, the Knicks traded Ryan Arcidiacono, Malachi Flynn, Evan Fournier, Quentin Grimes and two future second-round picks to the Detroit Pistons, and in return got Bojan Bogdanović, who started his NBA career playing for the Brooklyn Nets by the way, and Alec Burks who just to use play in NY from 2020 to 2022, then he went to Detroit and now he's back in NY. ccording to some reports from ESPN, the New York Post, and Newsweek, this trade has possibly made the New York Knicks "legit contenders" who could make a deep run in the NBA Playoffs this season, so deep that they could even reach the Eastern Conference Finals, and if luck is really on their side, they might reach the NBA Finals. Some believe that: "After years of ill-fated signings and trades by hapless executives, the Knicks are suddenly being celebrated for their front-office decisions led by team president Leon Rose."
Something to watch out for are the fact that some of the Knicks' best players are a little banged up currently. Randle is nursing a shoulder injury, Brunson has an ankle injury, and Anunoby had surgery on his elbow that will be re-evaluated in a few weeks. Sources say that: "None of these injuries seem too threatening. Anunoby’s situation is the most frightening out of the three, but with the addition of Bogdanović in his position, they should still be able to compete at a high level until he returns." Right now, the Knicks are tied with the Milwaukee Bucks for third place in the East and just two and a half games behind the Cleveland Cavaliers for second. Seeding is crucial, getting the three seed avoids a team from facing the 1st place Boston Celtics in a potential second-round matchup, and second seed would more than definitely give a team home-court advantage for two rounds. So, if the Knicks do the impossible and make the #3 or #2 seed in the Eastern Conference, then New York City, MSG, the NBA, and fans everything are in for some "Scary Hours."
Now before we go KlicKNettars, I bet you'll wondering why I didn't start this post with presenting the 5-Day Rounder like I always do every week. Well, there's only thing you need to know about this week's round-up of news, a message if you care to listen.
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