Hour 3: James Dolan Fires Up Knicks with Inspiring Championship Speech artwork

Hour 3: James Dolan Fires Up Knicks with Inspiring Championship Speech

The Carton Show with Craig Carton & Chris McMonigle

June 15, 2026

The discussion highlights an inspiring locker room speech from James Dolan, where he challenges the team to sacrifice for ten weeks to achieve a life-changing championship.
Speakers: Craig Carton, Chris McMonigle
**Craig Carton** (0:00)
That was it. That was the Corona Limetime Highlight of the Night, of the night, of the week, of the decade, presented by Corona. La Playa awaits as the Knicks are champions. La Playa! And we get to hear Mike Brown, Mike Breen do it.
Incredible call. There's a lot of good calls. I thought if they have it, I don't know if you care to listen to it, I thought, is it Tyler O'Neil does the broadcast?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:28)
I don't know his name, but I like him.

**Craig Carton** (0:30)
His final call on the radio version of the Knicks was excellent.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:34)
If you guys want to get that for next hour, by all means, I'm happy to do that. I had them reach out to Breen, too. I know he's probably running around town, enjoying the fruits of his labor as well, as a long time voice of the New York Knicks.

**Craig Carton** (0:49)
And that's a special thing, too. Knicks fans just luck out that way. We talk about this all the time. You very rarely, if ever nowadays you don't, get to hear your broadcast or call your championships.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:00)
Yeah, it's a very unique thing.

**Craig Carton** (1:01)
It's a very unique thing. So now he's the national guy, and I think he did a great job being the national guy. I thought he called it down the middle. He was just as excitable on any moments that the Spurs had, as much as the Knicks. But to have your guy, and he's our guy, to have your guy be able to call that final moment when you win a championship, you don't get it anymore in Spurs.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:18)
Yeah, you know it's a big deal when they have Big Mac doing Sunday morning at 7 a.m. here. Yeah, that's right. I was like, what are we doing? What's going on? What are we doing?

**Craig Carton** (1:27)
I was drinking martinis at 3 a.m. So that was one hell of an early wake up call.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:30)
Yeah, Sunday morning, 7 to 9, I got a Big Mac on.

**Craig Carton** (1:35)
Evan and Tiki followed me.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:37)
Evan and Tiki had the mayor on. Our word is the mayor would only talk to Nets fans because he's not a Nick fan. Which is why I do an eye with those guys and an eye with you.
But yeah, look, winning unites us. Sports is different. Sports and music. Only two things that you can sit down across the table with somebody you don't like to your core and enjoy something with them, right? And that's why I think Thursday is going to be awesome. I don't think there's going to be any issues. I don't think there's going to be any problems. Those in traffic, obviously. But I think the hooliganism that we all witnessed on Saturday night, I think it's not Nick fans doing it. I think there's a group of people that, for whatever reason, like to turn public gatherings into their own little playground of crime.
And I do not think it's representative of the city. I don't think it's representative of Nick fans either. To be honest with you. I agree with you. And is it a bad look? Yeah, 6 DRS. Obviously, you saw that one Spurs fan who was just dropping dudes. The guy in the Rodman jersey?
Like I give that guy credit.

**Craig Carton** (2:39)
He looked like Anthony Mason.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:40)
And by the way, if there's 500 of us and one of him, like that's the point, that's where the mob's supposed to go.
Right? Dude was like, who wants the next one? He was throwing hooks, uppercuts. That was like UFC at the White House last night, which I did watch all of. I didn't miss a single fight last night.

**Craig Carton** (3:01)
I didn't see it. How was it? I loved it.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:04)
It's actually, you know, a lot of times that I'm on a mixed martial arts card, you may only get one or two good fights just the way fights go. I think people would agree with me on this.
Every fight was actually pretty good fight. Most fights didn't get past the first round early on. I thought it was a great card last night.

**Craig Carton** (3:25)
Unbelievable card.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:26)
You're right.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:26)
No, there wasn't one decision.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:29)
It was all stoppages. Even last night was a TKL. He threw the white flag. If you go back and watch this, the last fight of the night, the dude's face was so messed up and blowing up like a balloon because of the damage to it. He also had some type of facial fracture where he had, I don't know what bone, orbital bone, cheekbone, some bone in his face was in the wrong place.

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