Brett Howden Talks After Game 1 Win As The Room Feels The Heat

Brett Howden is front and center after a Game 1 win, and the postgame tone always tells you more than the scoreboard does. Players in this spot know the next question is never about what just happened - it is about whether the group can repeat it when the script changes. Kathryn Tappen gets the cleanup duty here, which means the answers have to survive a lot of second-guessing. The conversation matters because early-series wins are only useful if they come with a plan for what comes next.