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Boomer & Gio

Best of Boomer & Gio on WFAN: May 18-22

Boomer & Gio

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News, Sports

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Boomer & Gio are live from D’Jais in Belmar and react to the Knicks going up 2-0 on the Cavs. Plus, Boomer on why this is the best Knicks team since 1999 and how their Game 1 comeback gave him flashbacks of being at the Garden as a kid; Jerry Reco plays the sounds from the Knicks’ epic Game 1 comeback; the guys react to Bill Belichick explaining why Woody Johnson drove him away from the Jets; celebrating Eddie Scozzare as he retires from WFAN.

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0:00.0

It is a feel-good Friday, man. Did the Knicks put on a show last night or what?

0:05.4

Yeah. Did Josh Hart come out and say, screw everybody. I'm going to take over this game. What it is? Did Mikhail Bridges and OG Ananobe do what they do? Yes. Did Jalen Brunson take a back seat to Josh Hart last night? that's why they're a great team, man. They are a great team. They play together.

0:21.5

They actually support each other. And I'll tell you what, for all the players on this team that

0:26.4

are all pretty likable, I would say that Josh Hart is probably one of the most likable because

0:31.5

of the way he plays. He's undersized and he plays a big. And he's just a maniac on the court, especially defensively. But when you and I are watching the game last night and he plays a big and he's just a maniac on the on the on the on the court especially defensively

0:38.4

but when you and i are watching the game last night and he starts out he misses a couple and we're like

0:43.8

is josh stop shooting stop shooting and then all of a sudden he catches fire in the second half

0:49.5

and the game they you know gets away from the cavaliers and and you just got to be really happy this

0:54.7

morning if you are a nick fan that you see scoring coming from all these different players and they all

1:00.6

have had their moments whether landry sham it the other night in game one uh last night it was

1:05.3

johan brunson was huge in game one carl anthony towns another double double so i i't know. They're playing, that's the kind of game that they need to play if they're going to win and they're going to continue to go on for a championship. But yeah, right now, they are on the cusp of being the greatest Nick team ever, possibly. Well, I mean, on the cusp is like maybe having three wins in the NBA finals with one more. Hey, I said cusp.

1:29.4

Yeah, but cusp means that they've won a couple games in the final. I said they're on the cusp. They're not on the cusp. They're in the cuckoon, maybe. What? Maybe they're in the cocoon. I don't know about cuckoon, but they're cusping right now. They're cusping?

1:41.9

Yes.

1:42.4

I don't know.

1:42.9

That's what they are.

1:43.3

Yes, they're cusping.

1:44.1

I will say, though, that this is basically a warm-up series now for the NBA. but they're cusping right now. They're cusping? Yes. I don't know. I'm not ready to say cusp.

1:45.0

I will say though this is basically a warm-up series now for the NBA finals because the Cavaliers have nothing. They're not going to be able to stop the Knicks in any way. You saw that they tried different things. And of course, Kenny Atkinson who says James Hardin is this great on ball defender and I'm going defend James Harden and this guy's great. You don't see a lot of James Hardin on Jalen Brunson last night You see a lot of other Tactics to stop Jalen Brunson which actually worked and then of course you see Josh Hart finally hitting those threes and the offense coming from everywhere else This is a warm-up series basically at this point. I mean that the Cavaliers if they win one game It'll be shocking. So they're on the cusp of being really great. Cusser going to the NBA points. Okay. But you said the Cust would be the greatest Knicks team ever. They could be. But the Cust... I just said Cusman could. That's all I said. You took it a little far. I did not take it a little far. I am, I bought in now. I am totally bought in because I see what I'm, then Jesus. Well, but what I'm saying is you can see it. They've come together as a team and they're unselfish. And Mike Brown has made adjustments. And to Kenny Atkinson's credit last night, he made an adjustment. Yeah. And they said, okay, Josh Hart, you're throwing up bricks. You go ahead and shoot. And they left him open.

2:51.9

And like I was telling you last night, what did I say to you last night when we were watching Josh Hart shoot and make three? You said, keep shooting, shoot or shoot. Yeah, well, I changed from the first quarter until the third quarter. Right, right, exactly. At first it was like, don't shoot. and then when he made a shot, it was like, shoot and shoot.

3:07.6

Just keep shooting.

3:08.3

Keep shooting.

3:08.8

Yeah, especially when he made a shot, it was like, shoot and shoot!

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