Knicks Title Defense: "The Rest of the NBA Is Chasing Us"

Craig Carton (0:00)

I believe we have another opportunity for you to win something here. No?

Why were you pointing at Big Mac then? See if somebody has to read here?

SPEAKER_2 (0:08)

I was just pointing at you.

Craig Carton (0:09)

Or just excited that the Knicks are back and... Yeah, okay, you pointed at him like he had something to read. I apologize.

Chris McMonigle (0:15)

I got nothing.

Craig Carton (0:16)

Yeah, but you've embarrassed yourself here today, if I may say.

Chris McMonigle (0:19)

No, no, don't... Wait, this Gallo? No, not Gallo.

Craig Carton (0:22)

Gallo embarrasses himself all the time.

Chris McMonigle (0:24)

I heard you whispering with Gallo as you walked out of the room.

SPEAKER_2 (0:26)

I was not whispering with anybody. I'm not a whisperer.

Chris McMonigle (0:29)

You guys were whispering cackling like a bunch of schoolgirls.

Craig Carton (0:32)

Why are you dressed like you go to a funeral?

Chris McMonigle (0:34)

I'm in black today.

SPEAKER_2 (0:34)

Johnny Cash?

Chris McMonigle (0:35)

What does that mean? So I'm wearing a black shirt?

Craig Carton (0:37)

It's a black sweater. It's the next celebration day.

Chris McMonigle (0:40)

Okay.

Craig Carton (0:40)

You're dressed like you go to the funeral home after this.

Chris McMonigle (0:43)

I don't think so at all. It's a sweater.

Craig Carton (0:45)

Is this because Najee Harris got cut today?

SPEAKER_2 (0:48)

Is that what it is? No, it's because if I wear a... You're feeling about the Giants going to 331?

Chris McMonigle (0:52)

No, it's because if I wear a hoodie that I wore in the last six weeks, I'm going to get, you know, mocked for it. So I'm wearing something I haven't worn in a while.

Craig Carton (0:58)

What are you wearing?

Chris McMonigle (0:59)

I'm wearing a black sweater.

Craig Carton (1:00)

I don't mock what you wear ever.

Chris McMonigle (1:01)

Oh my God.

Craig Carton (1:02)

I mock what you wear?

I've never mocked what you wore. I love your clothes. I tell you that all the time. But this is like...

SPEAKER_2 (1:11)

This is offensive.

Chris McMonigle (1:12)

I don't know if I've worn it on the show since...

SPEAKER_2 (1:14)

You've never worn this on the show.

Chris McMonigle (1:15)

First day.

Craig Carton (1:15)

Yeah, I know.

Chris McMonigle (1:17)

January 5th.

Craig Carton (1:17)

Because you're going to a funeral.

Chris McMonigle (1:18)

January 6th.

Craig Carton (1:19)

It's like, what are you doing?

Chris McMonigle (1:20)

I think it was the 5th.

Craig Carton (1:20)

Tonight's a celebration. Rainbow colors. Yeah. Maybe one of your funky little Hawaiian shirts.

Chris McMonigle (1:29)

I could have done a Hawaiian shirt. No. Could have gone with a Fairty Knick shirt. This is for the rest of the NBA.

Is that right? It's a funeral for the rest of the NBA. Good cover, good cover. Back-to-back champions.

Craig Carton (1:40)

Good cover. I don't buy it, but good cover. There you go.

Chris McMonigle (1:44)

I'm not selling anything.

Craig Carton (1:45)

I have to say, you know how excited you get when the Yankee season starts?

Chris McMonigle (1:48)

Yes.

Craig Carton (1:49)

And you're excited. You go to the game and what do you utter?

Chris McMonigle (1:52)

I love it here. I hope I die here.

Craig Carton (1:54)

That's how I feel about tonight. And I know we have giant stuff and jet stuff to get to, and I don't know, maybe even some baseball, but there are booms back, cashpins back. That's more tomorrow because the press conference is tomorrow for all those guys in Hal Steinbrenner.

Tonight, to me, is just a celebration of what happened five months ago. Tonight is about we're champions.

Chris McMonigle (2:15)

It's not also the first step of a journey of being defending champions.

Craig Carton (2:18)

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Chris McMonigle (2:20)

They're defending champions for the rest of the NBA.

Craig Carton (2:22)

That's the last piece of last year.

Chris McMonigle (2:24)

It is. But it's also the start of a new year where the rest of the NBA, as I think Janice said it like last week in a press conference for the Heat. Like he's like...

Craig Carton (2:33)

That sounds so weird when he said that.

Chris McMonigle (2:34)

I know.

We're chasing to be the best right now. That's the Knicks. We're chasing to take down the Knicks.

Craig Carton (2:40)

That's right. And LeBron's going to be in the building for it.

Chris McMonigle (2:43)

LeBron joined the 76ers to chase the Knicks.

Craig Carton (2:47)

That's right.

Chris McMonigle (2:48)

The rest of the NBA, there is a standard in the NBA, and it's the New York Knicks.