Knicks’ Mitchell Robinson catches snake in San Antonio in wild video — for the second time in playoffs
Mere hours after his Knicks won their first NBA championship since 1973, Mitchell Robinson celebrated another victory.
Robinson posted a video on his Instagram Story on Sunday morning of him holding up a snake, which he says he caught in San Antonio before Game 5.
Robinson, 28. shows the snake close-up on camera before being told to put it down.
“I’m about to put it down! Calm down!” Robinson said.
Throughout the NBA Finals, Robinson was nursing a broken right hand he suffered after the conference finals. It is still unclear how Robinson sustained the fracture, as the team would not reveal the cause of the injury.
Robinson played the entire series after being listed as questionable for Game 1.
Robinson, the longest-tenured Knick who has been with the team for eight years, made a clutch offensive rebound in the last minute of the fourth quarter in Game 5 to help the Knicks secure the 94-90 win to take the series 4-1 over the San Antonio Spurs.
Robinson talked about the snake he caught in his postgame press conference.
“You know what’s crazy? [Friday] at the hotel I caught a snake — again,” Robinson said. “When I caught a snake in the beginning of the playoffs when we played Atlanta, we won. I caught one last night, and we won today.
“So I think it’s something about snakes.”
Perhaps it’s that, but it’s certainly also the work of Robinson’s captain. Jalen Brunson had 45 points in the closeout game and was awarded the Bill Russell Trophy for Finals MVP.
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“It was unreal,” Robinson said of Brunson’s performance Saturday night. “Literally just unreal, like I’m speechless…
“To do it in a closeout game against a good team like that, it’s just different.”
This Knicks team is different indeed.
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