After a dominant victory, sometimes you need a little something to wine-d down.
Josh Hart celebrated the Knicks’ sweep of the Cavaliers via a blowout 130-93 Game 4 victory by sipping on a glass of wine at his postgame press conference.
The Knicks’ do-it-all wing, donning a Knicks NBA Finals hat and an elegant outfit, took the podium to celebrate alongside his former Villanova teammates Mikal Bridges and Jalen Brunson, as the triumvirate prepare for the Thunder or Spurs next week.
“I don’t think a switch flipped per se,” Hart said when asked about the 11-game win streak and turnaround after going down 2-1 to the Hawks in Round 1. “This is a selfless team.”
Hart joked when talking to the reporter that the person wasn’t allowed to ask questions because he was eating wings during the press conference.
“I see it, don’t say anything,” Brunson said when they both noticed the reporter eating wings.
“I know you don’t come in sucking your fingers,” Hart added as laughter erupted in the media room. “You got chicken wings. You supposed to be asking questions and you went and got chicken wings. Hell no. You don’t get nothing. Then wings are hitting though.”
Hart was benched during the Knicks 22-point comeback in Game 1, where the Cavaliers blew a massive fourth-quarter lead and eventually lost in overtime.
Cleveland had no chance after that staggering collapse, as the Cavaliers struggled in the remaining three games and were eventually swept.
Game 2 was the Hart show, as he went 10-for-21 from the field and scored 26 points after being benched in favor of Landry Shamet the game prior.
Shamet shot an obscene 11-for-12 from 3-point range in the Conference finals, showing that this Knicks team doesn’t need any one person to carry them.
The Knicks will have to wait to learn their Finals foe, as the Thunder and Spurs have their heels dug into the sand in a 2-2 series.
