Jamal Crawford opens up to The Post on the dangerous Knicks belief behind this NBA Finals team

Former Knick Jamal Crawford, who is an analyst for NBC Sports and called the Western Conference Finals on NBC and Peacock alongside play-by-play man Mike Tirico and analyst Reggie Miller, takes a shot at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.Q: Your thoughts on Wemby (Victor Wembanyama)?A: Transcendent, generational.His off-the-court view of life, his point of view of life are even more impressive than the stuff you can see on the court.

He’s just different.And we use the term different so much in today’s culture, but he’s even more different than the people we call different.Q: How about on-the-court different?A: He could do everything.

Look how the game’s evolved.We saw a 6-[foot]-9, 6-10 in T-Mac (Tracy McGrady), and that kinda graduated to Kevin Durant, who’s 7 feet, did the stuff T-Mac did but even more efficiently, and now if you stretch it out even more and go 7-4, 7-5 with Victor Wembanyama, so with him, he can do all those same things, but he has a whole different altitude that he’s doing it from, being that tall.

He is just something special.Q: Why does the city love the Knicks so much?A: That fanbase and the connection to the fanbase, it’s one of the truly remarkable things in sports — in any sport.They’re like how the Cowboys are loved, how the Yankees are loved, how the Lakers are loved.

It’s a different type of love.Here’s an example: I came to a game a couple of years back, playoffs against Cleveland.And when I left, it was like I played and I had 30 in the Garden the night before, the fans were going crazy.

I’m like, “This is crazy, I have not played here in almost 20 years at that point, and they still show that kind of love.” Once A Knick, Always A Knick, and they truly make you feel that.Q: Paint the picture for me what the city would be like if the Knicks won the NBA championship.A: They’ll literally party for one year straight like it’s 1999.It would be IN-credible.

I don’t mean 1999 as a real year,...

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