**Craig Carton** (0:03)
I did think it was interesting yesterday that among the throngs of people celebrating the Nick win last night, did you see a woman get set on fire? Did you happen to see that last night?
I'm assuming the answer is no.
**Chris McMonigle** (0:18)
In celebratory fashion?
**Craig Carton** (0:19)
In celebratory fashion, they were trying to burn a Spurs jersey.
**Chris McMonigle** (0:23)
I did not see that.
**Craig Carton** (0:25)
The embers or the flames or something caught this young gal on her back. And her back started smoking.
No joke.
**SPEAKER_4** (0:34)
Wow.
**Craig Carton** (0:35)
So, because Nick fans are so classy and caring for one another, they very quickly put it out. And she continued to party.
**SPEAKER_4** (0:43)
Yeah.
**Chris McMonigle** (0:43)
Nothing stopped the Nick party.
**Craig Carton** (0:45)
No joke. I'll show you the video. They start... This is perfect. You're going to love it. So it's like thousands of people on the streets. My genius son, who lives in Murray Hill, walks to the garden after the game just to participate in all the fun. So this girl's back gets caught on fire, right? They put the fire out. She's fine. She'll get burned, thank God, or anything.
Thousands of people start singing, The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire.
The second verse was, Her back, her back, her back is on fire.
**Chris McMonigle** (1:24)
If she's all right, I guess that's funny. As long as she's all right, I think that's okay.
**Craig Carton** (1:29)
They also beat up a city bike last night.
**Chris McMonigle** (1:31)
Oh, come on.
**Craig Carton** (1:33)
They attacked a city bike.
**Chris McMonigle** (1:34)
People need those bikes.
**Craig Carton** (1:35)
I wish we could get rid of every city bike in the five boroughs.
I wish Mayor Bloomberg never instituted the city bike plan. I hate it with a passion. Took up every good parking spot in New York City.
**Chris McMonigle** (1:45)
I know.
**Craig Carton** (1:46)
I hate it, hate it, hate it.
And there's one other thing before we get back to your calls from the celebration last night. I thought Karl-Anthony Towns is a really smart thing as well.
He also wanted to thank NYPD for allowing Nick fans to celebrate the Knicks' victory last night and have the fun that they're having in the streets of New York City. It's what makes us special. And we've not had a lot of it. A lot of times you see other cities celebrating in the streets, most notably Philadelphia. Now they're really morons there. They've got to get grease poles to stop them from climbing poles and fall into their death from traffic lights. New Yorkers don't climb poles. We celebrate by burning girls' backs and by singing 1970s disco songs.
**Chris McMonigle** (2:28)
We haven't had a parade in 15 years.
**Craig Carton** (2:30)
Is that how long it's been?
**Chris McMonigle** (2:31)
Yeah, 2011
**Craig Carton** (2:32)
15 years, yeah. That's right, Giants.
**Chris McMonigle** (2:36)
Giants 2011 That's right.
**Craig Carton** (2:38)
That's right, 15 years.
**Chris McMonigle** (2:40)
Speaking of Karl-Anthony Towns, not only did he have a great game, I thought he took Wemby off the dribble.
**Craig Carton** (2:45)
Excellent.
**Chris McMonigle** (2:46)
We talked about the multiple offensive rebounds and putbacks in that stretch where they were down 14 Just overall, I thought he played a great basketball game. He also showed some leadership. He also, like, we talked about the hack times. Yeah, I mean, that, we actually have the audio. I put it in WFAN only.
It's Cat...
**Craig Carton** (3:03)
So one of that defense, right?
**Chris McMonigle** (3:05)
Cat defense. It's in WFN only. It's he's speaking to the team, and I thought also the end of it, we're going to play the audio, and they showed it on the broadcast. He's talking to the team. They're obviously struggling offensively. They did the entire first half, but he's focusing on defense, and he does something, and he mentions something at the end, what you're going to hear here, that I think is important for teams that are on these championship runs.
**Craig Carton** (3:26)
Here's Karl-Anthony Towns, sideline in the huddle last night. Go.
**SPEAKER_5** (3:29)
So the offense catches up.
**SPEAKER_6** (3:31)
We got to keep playing defense this way.
**Anthony** (3:33)
We're at 34 percent for them.
**SPEAKER_6** (3:34)
We got to keep playing defense this way.
**SPEAKER_5** (3:36)
This will win us the game.
**SPEAKER_6** (3:38)
Our offense will always catch up.
**SPEAKER_5** (3:39)
It didn't game one in Cleveland.
**SPEAKER_6** (3:40)
We'll be fine.
**Craig Carton** (3:41)
That's awesome.
**Chris McMonigle** (3:42)
I love that.
**Craig Carton** (3:42)
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