{"id":744945,"date":"2026-05-27T02:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/744945\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T02:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T02:42:18","slug":"mike-brown-used-clever-tactic-to-light-a-fire-in-the-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/744945\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Brown used clever tactic to light a fire in the Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Brown played the role of motivator to a tee as his New York Knicks<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nba\" data-team=\"20000006\" data-name=\"New York Knicks\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"New York Knicks\"><\/a> look to continue their torrid postseason run.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks have had lengthy waits before each of their last two series. They had four days off before Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinals matchup against the Philadelphia 76ers, who went to seven games against the Boston Celtics<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nba\" data-team=\"20000009\" data-name=\"Boston Celtics\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Boston Celtics\"><\/a>. New York had nine days of rest before taking on the Cleveland Cavaliers<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nba\" data-team=\"20000012\" data-name=\"Cleveland Cavaliers\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Cleveland Cavaliers\"><\/a> in the Eastern Conference Finals.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the time off, the Knicks showed zero rust against both opponents. New York brought out the brooms both times for decisive sweeps. Brown\u2019s motivational tactics may have been a part of it.<\/p>\n<p>Before the conference finals, the Knicks head coach reportedly showed his team a compilation video of each player\u2019s reaction to getting eliminated by the Indiana Pacers<a class=\"maisdio-link\" href=\"#\" data-sport=\"nba\" data-team=\"20000013\" data-name=\"Indiana Pacers\" data-track-content=\"\" data-content-name=\"mai-sportsdataio-link\" data-content-piece=\"Indiana Pacers\"><\/a> last season two games short of the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mike Brown had his staff create a video before Game 1 of the ECF showing the players&#8217; faces after being eliminated by the Pacers last season<\/p>\n<p>The message: &#8220;How did you feel in that moment?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrBuckBuckNBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@MrBuckBuckNBA<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/co1TZcr763\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/co1TZcr763<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fullcourtpass (@Fullcourtpass) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fullcourtpass\/status\/2059235674859929891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 26, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did you feel in that moment?\u201d Brown asked his players.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks clearly didn\u2019t want to feel the same way once the dust settled on this year\u2019s Eastern Conference Finals. New York <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/james-harden-tragic-comments-knicks-cavaliers-swept\/755775\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dominated the Cavaliers by an average margin of 19.3 points<\/a> to cruise to the NBA\u2019s ultimate series.<\/p>\n<p>One has to wonder what motivational bullets Brown still has left in the chamber as the Knicks await their opponent to come out West.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Brown played the role of motivator to a tee as his New York Knicks look to continue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,4056,3357,6,56381,191,986,477,4055],"class_list":["post-744945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento-kings","tag-basketball","tag-kings","tag-mike-brown","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramentokings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116644239370332853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}