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Rich Eisen calls Knicks ring-email test "despicable"

A reported offer of complimentary championship rings becomes a cybersecurity lesson, and Eisen takes the arena employees' side.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 143,709 views a day, 5.4 times a normal first day on this channel (26,442).

“Despicable!” – Knicks Fan Rich Eisen Reacts to Team Using Lure of Rings to Phish Its Own Employees

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1:15Eisen credits Jalen Brunson and Julius Randle with renewing his affection for the Knicks.
2:18He introduces The Athletic's report that assistant coaches received empty ring boxes at the ceremony.
3:40The reported complimentary-ring email turns out to be an internal phishing test for MSG employees.
4:45According to the report Eisen recounts, employees who clicked were enrolled in mandatory cybersecurity training.
5:25Eisen jokingly assures his own staff that prize emails from him will be safe to open.
6:55He condemns the reported tactic and expresses sympathy for the arena employees.

Jalen Brunson helped Rich Eisen fall back in love with the Knicks. A report about how Madison Square Garden treated its employees has given that renewed affection an uncomfortable test.

In his new segment, Eisen starts with the pleasure of the team's championship ring and banner ceremony before turning to an article from The Athletic. According to the report he reads, employees received an email offering complimentary championship rings. The offer was actually an internal phishing test, and staff who clicked were enrolled in mandatory cybersecurity training.

For Eisen, the objection is the bait: using a piece of the championship celebration to catch out the people working at the arena. He directs his criticism at ownership and management, then offers his own staff a joking assurance that prize emails from him will be safe to open.

"That, if true, is so odious and despicable," he says, returning to the employees whose hopes the offer raised.

The clip reached roughly 88,000 views in ten hours, with its estimated first-day audience more than five times the show's usual. The comments are even more unusual: already more than thirty times a typical full day's total. Viewers discuss the tension between making phishing tests convincing and preserving employees' trust, while others reach for comparisons to The Office and Office Space.

Eisen's regular sports talk is also drawing an unusually fast start: the accompanying "What's More Likely" installment ranges across football, basketball and the World Series. But the Knicks segment gives his fandom a different focus, away from the court and toward the people working around it.

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