Hour 4: Craigie and Big Mac Rank the Top Moments of the Knicks' Title Run

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
The Carton Show with Big Mac.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:01)
A little salt and pepper.

**Craig Carton** (0:02)
We got a short final stop on The Carton Show at 6 o'clock. Yankee baseball coming up, what, 625?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:08)
625

**Craig Carton** (0:10)
There you go. Yankees, of course, 16 and 4 in their last 20 games.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:14)
Damn right.

**Craig Carton** (0:14)
So on fire, 18 games over 500 as well. But we're going to wrap up all of our Nick Parade talk and take some more of your calls as well.
Any final thoughts you didn't get out or things you saw today or feelings you have about the guys before we take these last calls?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:30)
We've said it all, man. We've said it all.
We all love this team. It's bittersweet for me that we're saying goodbye to celebrating this championship already. But Jalen Brunson is a superstar. Leon Rose, the way they put it together, the speech from the owner, it all. And then the run, the dominance. I wish we could go back and do it all over again.

**Craig Carton** (0:48)
Without knowing the outcome?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:49)
I wish we could go back and just the experience. That night, up on the rooftop of 345 Hudson.

**Craig Carton** (0:57)
NFL Draft.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:58)
NFL Draft. Watch.

**Craig Carton** (0:59)
Game 2 against Atlanta.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:00)
Game 3

**Craig Carton** (1:01)
Was it game 3?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:02)
And they lost that game. And they fell behind Atlanta, two games to one. That night, from that moment on, the Knicks put us on a ride that was just unparalleled.

**Craig Carton** (1:13)
Yeah, 15 to 1, without a point out.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:15)
It was just an unparalleled ride of dominance and clutchback baskets. And coming back from every deficit, game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, game 4 of the NBA Finals, just...

**Craig Carton** (1:27)
You want to play a blind-rank game?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:29)
Sure.

**Craig Carton** (1:29)
So I'm going to give you random moments for the New York Knicks this year.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:34)
Okay.

**Craig Carton** (1:35)
1 to 5

**Chris McMonigle** (1:36)
I got to rank them blind.

**Craig Carton** (1:37)
But I'm not telling you what the other ones are.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:39)
Sure.

**Craig Carton** (1:39)
So if I just say, you know, blah, blah, blah, you have to say, I'm going to make that number 4

**Chris McMonigle** (1:44)
Okay.

**Craig Carton** (1:45)
It can't move out of number 4

**Chris McMonigle** (1:46)
Gotcha.

**Craig Carton** (1:47)
So your trick is, do I wait for the number 1 moment?

**Chris McMonigle** (1:51)
Okay.

**Craig Carton** (1:51)
So the first moment I'm going to give you is going to be, let's see, the Game 1 22-point comeback against the Cleveland Cavaliers. 1-5, where do you want to put that?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:06)
I'm going to put it 3 because I was there.

**Craig Carton** (2:08)
Cavs.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:09)
If I wasn't there, I might have gone 4

**Craig Carton** (2:11)
Cavs' comeback is number 3

**Chris McMonigle** (2:13)
And I literally said it was the moment that I believed they could win an NBA championship. So for me, it goes 3

**Craig Carton** (2:18)
All right.
The James Dolan speech before the game against the Chicago Bulls on April 3rd. Where do you put that?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:28)
As much as I love it.

**Craig Carton** (2:29)
These are just moments for the season.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:30)
Yeah, no, but moments that...

**Craig Carton** (2:33)
1-5.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:33)
But not for them. For me, having experienced that video.

**Craig Carton** (2:36)
This is where you rank it. You rank.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:37)
5 He's not a player.

**Craig Carton** (2:38)
Number 5

**Chris McMonigle** (2:39)
He's not a player, it's not a moment.

**Craig Carton** (2:40)
Dolan's speech is number 5 Yes. Okay. So you have 1, 2, and 4 left for your blind rank. Is that right? Yeah. I just want to make sure we're on the same page.

**Chris McMonigle** (2:51)
1, 2, and 5

**Craig Carton** (2:52)
1, 2, and 4

**Chris McMonigle** (2:53)
1, 2, and 4

**Craig Carton** (2:53)
Are now left. Yep. The 80-plus-point first half in the route against the Sixers.
Number 4 Yeah. The 80-point route is number 4

**Chris McMonigle** (3:11)
80-point.

**Craig Carton** (3:11)
Remember they had the 80-point half?

**Chris McMonigle** (3:13)
Oh, the 80-point half.

**Craig Carton** (3:13)
And when James Solis said, Steph Marbury goes, what the F?

**Chris McMonigle** (3:16)
Yeah, yeah. Remember that? I think it was against Atlanta.

**Craig Carton** (3:18)
Was it Atlanta? Yeah, yeah. I conflated that?