That's right, you cowards.

Yo, today we got an Academy Award-winning,

iconic filmmaker, and legendary New Yorker.

What's his name?

- Spike Lee, you cowards. - That's right.

Give it up for the ultimate Knicks fan.

Whoo!

Whoo!

Spike, my brother!

Oh, hail greatness.

My guy.

What's up?

Spike Lee in the building, y'all.

Yes, sir.

Spike, let's get down to the brass tacks right away.

How you feeling about the 2019 NBA draft?

I really wanted Zion.

MERO: Yeah, I know.

And no disrespect, his teammate, Duke, Barrett.

DESUS: RJ.

People forget that Michael Jordan was a number three pick.

That's right.

So we have hope.

So we have hope.

I have confidence in the New York

Knickerbockers' front office.

And we gotta get back to--

DESUS: Our winning ways?

Ooh. MERO: Chop it up, bro.

Chop it up. Chop it up.

When did we have winning ways, though?

Chop it up. I'm ready.

[SNORTING] - Well.

- I'm ready for the next coke. - Mero, what's up?

- Give me that Knicks coke. - Give me some hope, Spike.

Give me that Knicks coke. I need it.

- Spike, listen. - I need it.

When people think of Knicks fans, they think of us.

They're like, why do you guys still--

or why you guys still Knicks fans?

Why are you still a Knicks fan?

Because I grew up with what Will Frazier,

Dave DeBusschere, Bill Bradley, Coach Red Holzman, Willis Reed,

Cazzie Russell.

MERO: I talked to him.

I mean, that was a game 7.

May 8, 1970, the Willis Reed game, I was there

Mhm.

SPIKE LEE: The first championship.

MERO: And by the way, the other day was the 25th anniversary

of when Scottie Pippen dunked on Pat Ewing

and tried to get in your face.

And you was like, I think-- - No, no.

MERO: You said something to the effect of like,

yo, get the fuck out of here.

I'll fuck you up, Scottie.

No, no. You're getting--

It was something like that.

You're getting me mixed up with somebody else.

[LAUGHING]

Like, I don't--

I don't remember that happening.

SPIKE LEE: No, what it was is that after--

it was a great dunk.

But then he stepped over Patrick.

And then I was telling the ref that should be a fake.

And they called it. - Yeah.

Yeah, so they called it.

OK.

That's right, you know what I'm saying?

But I got--

a lot of people-- getting a lot of people

telling me about that 20th anniversary, so.

Yeah.

But look, me and Scottie have always been cool.

Mhm.

So the only thing they got accelerated was the,

you know, the thing with Reggie.

But for me, it is always--

here's the thing though.

People-- and again, me a Reggie are cool.

But it wasn't this.

He had was this and one hand was on his--

Nuts.

MERO: Whoo!

Ooh.

Oh, that's different.

And so that's that's--

That's different.

That's like, yeah. SPIKE LEE: That's--

DESUS: That's not some three-for-three shit.

That's like thirty--

That was the jump-off.

Yeah, that's-- we scrapping--

That was the jump-off.

It was not just that.

But that's history.

Me and Reggie are mad cool, so.

MERO: You never wrote something on somebody's belly button

tattoo?

Never knew about it.

You never been like, you, my man.

- Never, never. - What is that?

He got a sunflower around his belly button.

I never did that, never brought up his sister Cheryl.

So I mean, I've never gotten personal with him.

Yo, like, yo-- shows us the-- [INTERPOSING VOICES]

DESUS: You never-- you could have.

You just never have.

It's disrespectful, you know.

I mean, look--

MERO: You just got it in your back pocket

just in case he doesn't another crotch grab.

No, no.

[LAUGHING]

That stuff was a long, long, long time--

I just think that, you know, I'm very fortunate.

Because when I was going to the Garden,

I was in the blue seats, you know, so.

To sit where I sit, you know, I respect the players.

And, you know, I want the Knicks to win.

But I'm not going to disrespect them.

Are you going to one day buy the Knicks?

MERO: Please do.

You got to have--

you got to speak to brotherman, who just donated, who--

Dre [INAUDIBLE].

DESUS: No.

Robert.

MERO: Oh, they donated to Morehouse.

DESUS: That guy from-- the Morehouse guy.

SPIKE LEE: Yeah, 40 mil, yeah, he paid everyone's tuition.

DESUS: But I think he's like trying to help--

like it would seem like a big waste of money

to buy the Knicks.

Like, that's not really helping the black community.

First of all, the Knicks aren't for sale.

Dolan said if you bring the right amount--

SPIKE LEE: He is not selling the Knicks nor the Rangers.

DESUS: Well, as a Knicks fan, I like to believe lies.

So I have to go with this.

You know what I'm saying?

What lies you believe in?

That he will one day sell the Knicks.

I have a Kevin Durant Knicks jersey already.

SPIKE LEE: You got one?

- I already got one. - You wearing it?

And I got a Kimble one.

And I wear them both at the same time, layered.

Don't be jinxing stuff, man.

[LAUGHING]

I don't like to tell you about nothing before it happens.

Listen--

But I was really--

I thought that, you know, the draft when it got

down to the last three, I thought

for sure that Zion was gonna--

MERO: When the Lakers got over four, we were like, yeah!

And then our Xanadu turned into a waterloo.

Yep.

But here's the thing though--

what does Anthony Davis want to do?

And that's the thing.

That's another question I was going to ask you.

Do keep the pick and pick Barrett?

Or do you try to trade the pick and get somebody else?

Get you an AD, you know what I mean?

But do you want AD?

Hell yeah.

The motherfucker's 7'7'' can dribble and dunk on everybody.

I'm just saying, like, OK, yes, he's a guaranteed

superstar and everything.

But what is his upside?

SPIKE LEE: He's a max player.

But what's his upside?

Like, what do-- are we gonna get as