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Michael Rapaport | Actor/Comedian | 05-26-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: You know, I go back to ninety four, Mike, were
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  Speaker 2: you doing the Knicks back in nineteen ninety four?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was doing radio, you were doing radio.
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  Speaker 2: So let's go back to the finals. The Knicks had
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  Speaker 2: taken on the Rockets, okay, And all these people are
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  Speaker 2: inside Madison Square Garden watching this series and then all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, nobody's sitting in their seats. They're all
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  Speaker 2: by the concession stance watching the TVs because there's a
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  Speaker 2: white Ford Bronco.
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  Speaker 3: Chase with O. J.
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  Speaker 2: Simpson in ac Cowlings. And isn't it ironic that yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: as the Knicks get set to start the Eastern Continent
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  Speaker 2: Conference files that Mark Furman, who became kind of the
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  Speaker 2: star of that OJ trial, he died yesterday, bringing back
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  Speaker 2: memories of nineteen ninety four.
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  Speaker 4: Right, yeah, yeah, I saw the news about Mark Ferman,
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  Speaker 4: and I remember that game so well. It's Game five.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sitting doing radio in the booth and we had
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  Speaker 4: a TV monitor, and you know, I'm a young broadcaster.
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  Speaker 4: That was the biggest game I've ever broadcast, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: I'm losing my focus because I'm watching the Bronco because
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  Speaker 4: NBC had a split screen. They had the Bronco and
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  Speaker 4: they had the game. And I remember saying to my statistician,
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  Speaker 4: Harry Robinson, Hey, Harry, you got to turn the TV off.
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  Speaker 4: I can't concentrate. And he went to turn the TV off,
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  Speaker 4: and that old broadcast location was in the middle of
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  Speaker 4: the stands. It was about ten rows up and all
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  Speaker 4: the fans around us, who we knew from being around
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  Speaker 4: all a year, they're screaming at me, no, no, oh, you
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  Speaker 4: can't turn the TV off. They wouldn't let me turn
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  Speaker 4: the TV off. Yeah, so here it is. It's the
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  Speaker 4: biggest game I've ever broadcast in my career. And I
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  Speaker 4: couldn't concentrate because of the compelling thing that was on
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  Speaker 4: the television with the white bronco.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you the story years and years ago, Danielle
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  Speaker 2: and I, beautiful wife and I went to see Billy
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  Speaker 2: Joel at Madison Square Garden. You know who's standing next
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  Speaker 2: to us. So was sitting next to us, Larry, Larry
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  Speaker 2: Goodman dancing Larry and he would do the same dance
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  Speaker 2: he does to that song at ranger games, like when
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  Speaker 2: Billy Joel was singing Uptown Girl or one of his
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  Speaker 2: upbeat songs, you know he'd.
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  Speaker 3: Break into Yeah. He do not dance a little exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So no matter where you were at the Gordon, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's a nick game, a ranger game, a concert dancing,
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  Speaker 2: Lorry was going to come.
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  Speaker 3: Through for you. She's got a way, Yeah, Jerry did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: honesty Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Rappaport is one of the great actors in my generation.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that two Romance Higher Learning. He was so
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  Speaker 2: phenomenal in this cable TV show. We really loved it. Atypical,
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  Speaker 2: but whenever you put the TV on, you see Michael Rapperport.
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  Speaker 2: He's like Michael Kaine. Like Michael Kaine was in every
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  Speaker 2: movie everyone for about forty years. You put on Law
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  Speaker 2: and Order, there's Michael Rapperport. You put on some old
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  Speaker 2: movie about New Edition, there's Michael Rapperport. He's a great actor.
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  Speaker 2: He's also a terrific comedian. But he's giving up a lot.
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  Speaker 2: He's got up a lot over the last couple of
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  Speaker 2: years because he's a Jewish boy, and he's been back
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  Speaker 2: and forth to Israel about one hundred times.
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  Speaker 3: In Hollywood hates him because of that. That's a bottom line.
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  Speaker 2: He may not tell you exactly what he's lost, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know the exact numbers. But he's lost
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  Speaker 2: plenty because he's a man of integrity. He loves the
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  Speaker 2: Jewish people, he loves Israel, and I love him. He's
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  Speaker 2: got a great documentary about to come out. I can't
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  Speaker 2: wait to go see it on June the ninth at
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  Speaker 2: the Tribeca Film Festival. But he's also known Mike Rapperport
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  Speaker 2: as a huge basketball guy. In fact, when the three
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  Speaker 2: on three League started with ice Cube, Mike was doing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the on court stuff. Big big Knick fan,
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  Speaker 2: huge Knick fan, and on this day I had to
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  Speaker 2: have him so here. He is the great comedian and
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  Speaker 2: actor Michael Rappoport, Mike and Morning Buddy, how are you sid?
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  Speaker 5: I am a pessimistic Knicks fan, like all of the
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  Speaker 5: Knicks fans that are over thirty years old. And the
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  Speaker 5: Knicks are going to win the NBA Championship. I've never
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  Speaker 5: said that before. I literally I've never said that before.
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  Speaker 5: I've never even thought it before. We're gonna beat the
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  Speaker 5: crap out of either the Spurs or Oka. See, we
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  Speaker 5: are playing so well, so cohesively, so together, so for
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  Speaker 5: the team, and we are peaking, and we we dominated Cleveland.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, if you listen to some of the clips
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  Speaker 5: from the post game of James Harden and Donovan Mitchell,
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  Speaker 5: and they's.
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  Speaker 2: Some ridiculous Kenny Atkinson before the game, the coach of
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  Speaker 2: the Covalos actually said analytically, we're beating the Knicks. Mind you,
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  Speaker 2: he's down three games to zero. And even after the loss,
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  Speaker 2: and they lost by a lot, this was not Alonzo
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  Speaker 2: Morning saying this when the Knicks had it won the
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  Speaker 2: game on an Alan Houston floater. They lost by an
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  Speaker 2: average of twenty five points, and Jimmy Harden still said
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  Speaker 2: after the series, were the better team.
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  Speaker 3: What a moron, what do you.
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  Speaker 5: That's gonna go down in history, is he? That's one
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  Speaker 5: of the worst quotes ever.
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  Speaker 6: They didn't just beat the crap out of Cleveland and
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  Speaker 6: Philadelphia and Atlanta, I mean they dominated them. And the
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  Speaker 6: fact that Landry Shamming.
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  Speaker 5: Is clicking on all cylinders from top to bottom, the
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  Speaker 5: whole team, Like, I'm not afraid of Victor wembin Yama
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  Speaker 5: on the Spurs, I'm not afraid of Shade. These guys
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  Speaker 5: are duking it out out there in the West. They're
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  Speaker 5: kind of They're gonna come and beat up, tattered and
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  Speaker 5: and and just and the exhausted. And the Knicks have
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  Speaker 5: earned this break because they every single game they played
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  Speaker 5: better and better and better and better and better. And
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  Speaker 5: I truly feel, from the bottom of my toes to
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  Speaker 5: the top of my beautiful, beautiful blonde a little bit
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  Speaker 5: of speckled gray hair, that the Knicks winning the NBA Championship.
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  Speaker 5: And I've never said that because I've been beaten down
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  Speaker 5: right and disappointed like all of us. Of course, I
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  Speaker 5: see these kids outside of the garden and they're having
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  Speaker 5: a good time, and I'm like, why are they celebrating
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  Speaker 5: because they didn't grow up the way we did, and
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  Speaker 5: and nor should they have the pain and the disappointment
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  Speaker 5: and the agony that we have had.
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  Speaker 2: It makes me mad, though I mentioned that in the
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  Speaker 2: first segment today, back at like six o'clock. Now I
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  Speaker 2: see all these you know, these young kids and these girls.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know, but they.
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  Speaker 2: Weren't they were they weren't there for the Edmondshire rod
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  Speaker 2: Rory Sparrow, you know, Slide Williams days like we gotta
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  Speaker 2: go through.
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  Speaker 5: They're New York fans. And then should they have to
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  Speaker 5: We deserve better. This shouldn't be. We shouldn't be sitting
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  Speaker 5: here like I talk to people yesterday they got voodoo dolls.
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  Speaker 5: People are like talking to astrologists. Some people won't move
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  Speaker 5: off the couch in between games the superstitions. But I go, hout,
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  Speaker 5: these are all grown ups, the kids. They should be free,
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  Speaker 5: they should be excited. Let them go nuts. They shouldn't
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  Speaker 5: have to suffer with years and years of Charles Smith,
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  Speaker 5: miss Layup and Sly Williams like you mentioned, and the
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  Speaker 5: great Michael Ray Richardson and the Bernard King of the
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  Speaker 5: Hins and Lows, the agony and all the ewing and
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  Speaker 5: the finger Rolls and the Glen Dondrs and and and
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  Speaker 5: and and all of it. We we we shouldn't have
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  Speaker 5: to be that way.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, you're right, they're having fun. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I remember watching Michael Ray, who was my favorite nick
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  Speaker 2: for a while there, but Dodd King was my favorite
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  Speaker 2: Nick then ewing. Now we'll see about Brunton. But I
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  Speaker 2: remember seeing Michael Wright play. Used to have this game
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  Speaker 2: it cut Your Sports Academy and Upstate New York. Every
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  Speaker 2: year they close it the more Restokes Basketball game Maristo
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  Speaker 2: and they not like the most the greatest players in
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  Speaker 2: the league would go to Upstate New York to Cutris
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  Speaker 2: Sports Academy and I met Marcroy Richards in there. But
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  Speaker 2: I want to get back to what you said. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: the Neck's gonna win the championship. Okay, So if they
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  Speaker 2: don't and they suffer their third consecutive NBA Finals loss,
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  Speaker 2: but if they're nine four Houston, not because I want
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  Speaker 2: to know, but will you but will you be disappointed?
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  Speaker 2: Because my point is I tweeted this, Yes, I tweeted
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  Speaker 2: this at four o'clock this morning. Now, the expectations are
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  Speaker 2: NBA Finals is not good enough.
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  Speaker 3: We need to be the champs.
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  Speaker 5: This is New York. This is not Cleveland, This is
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  Speaker 5: not Okay. See, this isn't that Missouri or any of
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  Speaker 5: This is New York, the mecca of basketball, Madison Square Garden.
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  Speaker 5: They call it the city Game. We have to be
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  Speaker 5: able to earn that and say that with pride. No,
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  Speaker 5: the championship, the finals means who gots it means absolutely
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  Speaker 5: positively nothing. We've done that before. We did it in
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  Speaker 5: ninety nine. We've come close. We have no cigar. It
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  Speaker 5: do not mean a thing. If you ain't got the ring, kid, Yes,
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  Speaker 5: it won't mean anything. I can't take it again. I
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  Speaker 5: spoke it into existence. I hope I didn't jinx myself
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  Speaker 5: and the Knicks. But we're better. We're playing better right now,
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  Speaker 5: and this is what it matters. We are playing better
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  Speaker 5: right now than OKC and the Spurs. Yeah, but those teams.
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  Speaker 2: Without anybody now listen, we are playing like no team
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  Speaker 2: I've ever seen. I didn't see Magic Lakers do this.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see Birds Celtics do this. Michael's Bowls. Not
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  Speaker 2: winning by thirty points every game, three closeouts on the
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  Speaker 2: road by twenty five to thirty points. I've never seen
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  Speaker 2: a team, do that, Michael, Never so is this? I
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  Speaker 2: know you love all the New York sports teams, but
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  Speaker 2: I love it. Like when you talk to my son Gabriel,
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  Speaker 2: because his favorite team by far.
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  Speaker 3: Is the Knicks.
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  Speaker 2: He likes the Yankees, he likes the Giants, but his
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  Speaker 2: favorite team is the Knicks. I get the feeling in
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  Speaker 2: terms of New York sports teams. You're with Gabriel.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, my favorite sport is basketball. And yeah, my favorite
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  Speaker 5: team is the Knicks. I mean the New York Football Giants.
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  Speaker 5: But it's different, you know, like I grew up playing basketball.
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  Speaker 5: You know, in New York City, basketball, basketball Clark courts
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  Speaker 5: are part of the part of the the structure of
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  Speaker 5: New York, whether they're being used or not. Like basketball
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  Speaker 5: is our sport. There's there's baskets all over. I love basketball.
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  Speaker 5: I love the Knicks.
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  Speaker 2: I love the gardens. Have you ever played Have you
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  Speaker 2: ever played? Because I know you can play ball, Michael,
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  Speaker 2: You're big. I know you can play basketball. I've seen
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  Speaker 2: you in celebrity games over the years before you got
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  Speaker 2: old and the knees went on you.
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  Speaker 3: Have you ever played it? Have you ever played at
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  Speaker 3: West Sport Street ever?
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  Speaker 5: I've shot around in West Ford Street. I never played
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  Speaker 5: at West Forced Street, but I played it. You know,
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  Speaker 5: no disrespect to West Wall Street. It's a great place.
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  Speaker 5: It's iconic, it's competitive, the the baskets, you know, with
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  Speaker 5: the cage, and it's small, and it's very very New York.
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  Speaker 5: But I feel like where I grew up playing in
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  Speaker 5: high school, where with even better basketball players out in
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  Speaker 5: Brooklyn and uh, in those places, but I mean New
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  Speaker 5: York City basketball street ball is just it's one of
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  Speaker 5: a kind. And uh, you know, I hope that these
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  Speaker 5: pickleball courts don't take over all the basketball courts. And
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  Speaker 5: I think that Jalen Brunson. You know, the thing about
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  Speaker 5: one thing about him sid is that when you look
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  Speaker 5: at the way he plays, the style that he plays,
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  Speaker 5: the basic he doesn't dunk, he's not high flying, he's
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  Speaker 5: not seven four like Webin Ym. He's not even shooting
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  Speaker 5: from half court like Stefan steph Uh Curry, you can
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  Speaker 5: be like Jalen, like you can go to the court
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  Speaker 5: and practice and imagine yourself being Jalen Brunson, because what
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  Speaker 5: he does it's so fundamentally fit and so fundamentally sound,
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  Speaker 5: and I just I'm so proud of this team. They're understated,
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  Speaker 5: they're classy, They're like these nerds. They really truly love
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  Speaker 5: each other. They understand what it means to play for
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  Speaker 5: New York, and I feel like as a sports fan,
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  Speaker 5: we couldn't have a better group of guys.
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  Speaker 2: Representing newgree I agree the Fighters and by Blah, my
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  Speaker 2: son Gabriel does.
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  Speaker 3: Play it West.
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  Speaker 2: Fortunately you'd be proud of him, Michael, But yeah, he does.
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  Speaker 2: He goes out there and he actually wins every now
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  Speaker 2: and then. He's not taking on Luwell Cinder of course,
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  Speaker 2: so Connie Hawkins, but he's out there taking on some
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  Speaker 2: pretty good competition and winning games.
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  Speaker 3: He loves that. He loves that. He loves that court,
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  Speaker 3: he really does.
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  Speaker 7: So.
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  Speaker 2: I just had Andrew Giuliani on this show right before you, Michael,
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  Speaker 2: and we talked about when his father was mayor, When
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  Speaker 2: Rudy Giuliani was mayor, the greatest mayor ever he's During
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  Speaker 2: his stay as mayor, New York won five sports championships,
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  Speaker 2: the Giants, the Giants won, the Yankees won, and believe
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  Speaker 2: it or not, he was mayor when the Rangers with
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  Speaker 2: Mark Messier won the ninety four Cup. They won five
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  Speaker 2: I said, you know, it's gonna bother me just a little.
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  Speaker 2: I can't lie. It's gonna bother me just a little.
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  Speaker 2: If the Knicks win and it's mom Donnie City. How
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  Speaker 2: about you.
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  Speaker 5: He's got nothing to do with it. You see him,
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  Speaker 5: You see him shooting baskets. He shoots a tinker bell.
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  Speaker 5: He don't play basketball. He don't know nothing about basketball.
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  Speaker 5: He's a fair way.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean.
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  Speaker 3: He's on Twitter after every game, him and Katy Holk.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing. He knows nothing. You don't see him at Carl
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  Speaker 5: Schulks Park right where the where Greasie Mansion is shooting around.
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  Speaker 5: He don't play basketball. He don't know basketball. He ain't
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  Speaker 5: a sports guy. He don't know nothing about basketball. He
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  Speaker 5: don't know anything about the history of the Knicks. He
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  Speaker 5: doesn't know Glenn Dodgers. It is Ray Williams. He wasn't
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  Speaker 5: there when we had hopes and dreams with Bill Cartwright
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  Speaker 5: and Marvin Webster.
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  Speaker 3: Yes a break, come on, come on, we did.
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  Speaker 2: We had Cartwright and Webster and us I know, and
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  Speaker 2: then we traded court right to the Bulls to get
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  Speaker 2: Charles Oakley. That broke out pretty well. That worked out
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  Speaker 2: pretty well. Uh, but well, I mean, there's so many,
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  Speaker 2: so many painful days. I remember, like I said earlier,
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  Speaker 2: watching Edmund Sharad and Rory Sparrow and Louis Orr and
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  Speaker 2: drafting Kenny sky Walker. And you think, Mom, Donnie has
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  Speaker 2: heard of any of those guys.
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  Speaker 3: Any of those guys knows nothing.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know about a jump puck. He can't make
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  Speaker 5: a layup with his left hand, his right hand. I'll
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  Speaker 5: have a free throw shooting contest with him anytime, any play,
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  Speaker 5: Come on soon, come on, if we win this champ No, sorry,
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  Speaker 5: when we win this championship. It has nothing to do
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  Speaker 5: with him. But let me ask you a question. Maybe
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  Speaker 5: you should ask some one of your city people if
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  Speaker 5: we sorry, when we win this NBA Championship. I feel
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  Speaker 5: like the Five Boroughs deserves a parade because it is
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  Speaker 5: the city game. I don't know how boll it can't
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  Speaker 5: just be in Manhattan. And I love Manhattan, It's where
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  Speaker 5: I'm from. But every borough needs to touch.
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  Speaker 3: The Listen of these I agree. Listen.
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  Speaker 2: My wife Danielle can tell you I spent twenty five
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  Speaker 2: years playing basketball in Marine Park in Brooklyn. Chris Mullen,
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  Speaker 2: he was weird there. Some of those Boston college kids
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  Speaker 2: were weird there. But Chris Mullen is probably the most famous,
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  Speaker 2: and his brother Terrence Mullen right there in Brooklyn, right
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  Speaker 2: there about a little school in Marine Park. So and
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  Speaker 2: there are so many great courts. I live in Queen now,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bronx certainly, you're right. I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: you just reduce it to a Manhattan ticket tape parade.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure there'll be parties in every borough. Look, thank god,
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  Speaker 2: I'm old enough to remember the four Giant Super Bowl wins,
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  Speaker 2: four folks, right, the eighty six over el winging the
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  Speaker 2: Broncos with Bill Simms, ninety with Hostel over the Buffalo Bills,
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  Speaker 2: and the two Eli Manning wins over New England Me's
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  Speaker 2: in eighty six, or the Yankee Championships as well, But
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  Speaker 2: this one, and the Rangers with just one in ninety years,
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  Speaker 2: in ninety four.
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  Speaker 3: But this one, that's it. One in ninety years.
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  Speaker 2: But this one when the Knicks not it, Like you say,
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  Speaker 2: when the Knicks win, this may be the biggest.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: We always argue about the most popular sports teams in
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  Speaker 2: this city. And even though football, football is the most
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  Speaker 2: popular sport in this country, by a mile, by a mile.
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  Speaker 2: It's not close. The two biggest teams in the city
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  Speaker 2: are the Yankees in the Knicks. That's the bottom line.
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  Speaker 5: I totally agree, and because we've been so beaten down
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  Speaker 5: since nineteen seventy three, and it's a part of our
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  Speaker 5: it's like a part of our demeanor as Knicks fans,
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  Speaker 5: you know, like it's shameful in a way. It's like
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  Speaker 5: we're not the Chicago Cubs, We're not the miserable Boston
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  Speaker 5: Red Sox. This shouldn't be part of our our our childhood,
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: our twenties, our thirties, our forties. We should have rings.
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: We haven't had rings. It's it's it's this will be unprecedented,
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: especially now and the phones and the excitement and the
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: Twitter and these young kids and the people of our
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: age and even older who have been suffering for year
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: and year and year and year. If sorry, when the
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Knicks win this championship, it's going to be it's gonna
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: be something we've never seen before. And I agree that
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: when the Knicks win the championship, we celebrate, we party,
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: and there's no destruction of the right.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: But the greatest city in the world, but we're not Detroit,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles. I'm not going to set our cars on fire.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Although who knows these proha moque people may or import
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: checks In my good buddy, he mentions Bob McAdoo and
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Spencer He he would remember the great Spencer Hey with
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: those teams too. But yeah, we were on the verge
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: of something very very special here. That's the good news.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: But in the final two minutes, Michael, the bad news is,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: we got a big rally tonight. I had Brooke Goldstein
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: on earlier. I like her a lot, and she's putting
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: together about a thousand She is great about a thousand
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: people at Gracie Mansion tonight. In the effort to remove
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Mom Donnie. It's not gonna work. The only person that
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: can do that is Kathy Hokel. But you see this.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: You talked about running from mayor, and I really hope
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: you do do it. I talk about it too. But
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: the odds are you will do it and I won't.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Those are the overwhelmingly good odds. But the city is
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: still it's still a mess. Even with the next playing
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: great basketball and with this guy running this city, it's
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: only gonna get worse. It's almost like we need the
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Knicks to win, Mike, because everything else is a disaster.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: I agree. And you know, my wife this morning, when
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: we were talking about the winds, she since said, do
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: you think the Knicks winning could help bring the city together?
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: And I said, you know, it could bring the city
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: together for a few hours, but uh, you know, the
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: breach in the city and the divisiveness by Zoron the moron,
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: the Knicks winning championship, back to back championship, three peting
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: championship ain't gonna help. This guy has an agenda and
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: and it's not about the Knicks winning championships. It's it's
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: it's his own personal agenda. It's a socialist agenda, it's
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: an anti uh Jewish agenda, and it's a divisive agenda.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: So unfortunately, I don't think that even us winning this championship,
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: which we're gonna do in a few weeks, uh, will help.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: And uh, you know, I just want, you know, people
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: to be safe, and I want people to be comfortable,
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: and I want people, you know, to really be proud
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: of being from here and living here and and feel
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: comfortable and and to feel you know that they don't
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: have to, you know, uh feel any kind of shame
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: for for any of the beliefs. And I feel like
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: Zoron his legacy is he's brought uh, he's brought that
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: to New York where people are feeling uncomfortable, and it's
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: it's it's it's not acceptable for any city, let alone
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: the greatest city in the world.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: He's completely okay with five thousand prohamas animals, yes, running
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: the streets of Bay Ridge, but God forbid three thousand
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: shorp outside Madison Square Garden to celebrate the Knicks.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: He gotta shut that down. How does that make sense?
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Yes, exactly one hundred percent. There's been one riot after another,
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: riot after another, person harassed outside of synagogues and he
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: does nothing. And it's oh, and let people be free
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: and blah blah blah, and that incident outside the garden,
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: it's not acceptable. Have fun, be you know, a party,
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: get crazy, getting nuddy, but you know, keep your hands
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: off each other. We're all together. He's full of crap.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: We know this. And you know, like I said, the
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: Knicks winning this championship has nothing to do with Zoron,
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: the moron who can't shoot a free throw.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: If it's like depended on it, Michael, your gorgeous.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: When we find out who they're going to play again
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: that Western Conference, a reason I reduced to a best
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: of three game five raining champs Oklahoma City tonight. So
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: whether it's Oklahoma City or San Antonio, when we find out,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: let's get you back here, maybe in studio and break
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: down the NBA Finals with you, because you are the
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: absolute best.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Mike Rappaport. I love you, Thank you so much.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Love you too. Sid. Have a great day everyone.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Great job, and Solod your wife too, She's a lovely lady.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Michael Rappaport right here on Sid and Friends in the Morning.
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