Knicks vs Sixers Rivalry Debate Gets HEATED! Craig Carton & Big Mac Go To War

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
Here's Ray Ray in Wappinger Falls. Ray, how are you today, kid?

**Chris McMonigle** (0:04)
Big Mac, Craigy, I'm doing great.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:06)
Happy Friday, boys.

**Craig Carton** (0:07)
Right on. Happy Friday.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:09)
Listen, I have to say, first off, though, thank you for getting me home on the last hour and a half trip home in the car with the kids, vacations. I appreciate it.

**Craig Carton** (0:17)
Well, thank you.

**Chris McMonigle** (0:17)
Because let me tell you, Craigy, you guys, I got a big shout out for the Philly Nation. I think you're gonna love this. But first, I don't want to show that I'm unbiased. So you know I'm a Die Hard Yankees fan, Die Hard Jets fan, Knicks, and Rangers.
This whole Philly thing, right? You guys already talked about it. They don't match, right? They don't have a bench. I'm not gonna get into that. All I'm gonna tell Philly Nation is welcome to the world of the New York Mets and the New York Jets. Because I've watched the Mets and the Yankee fan go through the disaster of Cohen and all the money, right? Get all the players and what happened? Not a damn thing. And then Craigy, you said it before. You stole a little bit of thunder. I'm laughing with the Jets. I'm thinking we're winning a Super Bowl. We got Rodgers.
We got this guy. We brought this guy in. We brought. How did that work out?

**Craig Carton** (1:03)
It's a great comp. Enjoy this.

**Chris McMonigle** (1:05)
It's going to be. It's going to be such a show to watch them just become a disaster.

**Craig Carton** (1:09)
And by the way, they're going to be good enough to be relevant because they're just there. They're going to be relevant.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:15)
They're a playoff team.

**Craig Carton** (1:16)
Yeah, they're a guaranteed lock playoff team. But remember, two years starting five will not play 60 games more than 60 games this year and Joel Embiid can't be trusted and LeBron doesn't play defense anymore. So just again, take my subjective view of LeBron James off the table for a second and just take me out of the equation. You don't think the Knicks are a better basketball team than the Sixers with LeBron James?
And I told you a month ago that I could see LeBron going to Philly and yes, does he make them better? A little bit. Sure. Seven seed to five seed. Okay. Congratulations.
You're out of the play-in. Happy for you.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:57)
They got Jaylen Brown though. I know.

**Craig Carton** (1:59)
What does that do to them?

**SPEAKER_4** (2:01)
They had a seven seed last year.

**Craig Carton** (2:02)
Hey, do me a favor. Have Gallagher give me the comp, Jaylen Brown to Paul George. I know Paul George only played like 37 games because he got suspended.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:10)
Look, he hit some shots early on in some games against the Knicks. I just want to see Jaylen Brown carry the Celtics to the two seed. I love Jaylen Brown.

**Craig Carton** (2:17)
I've told you that from Junk Street. That is one of the most lopsided trades in NBA history. And by the way, I can make an argument that the Mavericks trade with the Lakers is right there on a par with the Celtics trade with the Sixers.
That's an embarrassing trade.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:33)
Embarrassing trade.

**Craig Carton** (2:34)
Yeah.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:34)
And I'm just, I just, listen, I think they're going to be one of, I think it's the Knicks and then there's a second tier in the East. And I would not be surprised at all if Philadelphia ends up being the top of that second tier.

**Craig Carton** (2:45)
By the way, I have no problem, I have no problem with that.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:48)
I view it's the Knicks and everybody else. And do I think they're guaranteed to be the next team at the top of that next tier? No, but I think they could be.

**Craig Carton** (2:56)
Yeah. By the way, it's a two-year deal, eight million bucks. It's a player option for that second year. Yeah. So he's won and done in Philadelphia. Yes. No matter how it works out, if they don't win, he's just another year of losing, which is what he's done for the last decade of his career. And if they somehow pull off the biggest upset of all time and win a championship, which is obviously not even a possibility, then he retires as one of the great champions of all time.

**SPEAKER_4** (3:22)
That would be... How terrible would that be, though?

**Craig Carton** (3:25)
That'd be horrendous for us.