ESPN’s Mike Greenberg Had a Head-Scratching Theory for Why Knicks Struggled in Miami

The ESPN host had quite the take when it came to the Knicks’ struggles in Miami.

The Heat beat the Knicks 109–101 in Miami on Monday night to take a 3–1 series lead.

The moral of the story on Monday night was the same that has plagued the Knicks throughout the series; when it came time to close the game, New York could not get enough stops to hold Miami at bay.

Instead of making peace with the obvious coming out of Game 4, ESPN’s Mike Greenberg went a different route when discussing the Knicks’ struggles that have put them on the cusp of elimination.

“[People don’t realize] how hard it is to go down to Miami this time of year,” Greenberg began on Tuesday morning’s edition of Get Up! “People will immediately associate that with the nightlife and all that. But according to Jalen [Rose], there’s more than that. There’s also just the reality of the temperature change, the heat, the geography, being down there for three days. It just zaps a little bit of your energy and your strength. We talk about that primarily in football. I know this is an indoor sport, but I mean for the Knicks, whatever it is, [Jimmy] Butler has just destroyed them.”

Predictably, the internet reacted rationally to Greenberg’s wild take. Here are some of the best tweets from around the NBA world upon hearing about Greenberg’s theory for the Knicks’ struggles.