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Boomer & Gio

Best of the Knicks on WFAN: Unlocking Karl-Anthony Towns

Boomer & Gio

Audacy

News, Sports

4.2707 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Karl-Anthony Towns only attempted five shots from the field in an embarrassing loss to the Cavaliers, and Craig Carton wonders if Jalen Brunson deserves more of the blame. Plus, Boomer Esiason points the finger at Mike Brown, wondering if the Knicks made a mistake in firing Tom Thibodeau.

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0:00.0

Nah, nah, nah, two o'clock straight up.

0:02.9

Cardin Show, Big Mac, great to have you here.

0:05.5

Phone number to join, as always, 888, 808, 101.

0:10.2

Got a great show for you today.

0:12.6

Big Mac's going to be happy about that.

0:14.2

Got a crazy football situation happening right now.

0:17.4

We're going to get into it in just a little bit.

0:19.2

And, of course, last night, the Knicks fall to the Cavaliers. And something happened last night that I don't think has happened in Nick history since 1958. In any event, good afternoon, Big Mac. How are you today? What's going on? Craig? I'm good. How are you? I'm fantastic. You're fantastic. Fantastic. It seems like you're walking around here in a good mood today.

0:39.7

I am always in a good mood.

0:40.8

The day you find me in a bad mood is the last day you'll ever see me. True story. I've never in a bad mood. Well, today was an extra good mood. You're breaking balls, extra hard out there in the newsroom. Well, I got to do what I got to do.

0:51.0

No, I know.

0:51.4

It's good.

0:51.8

You got to keep everybody in the right place in this joint.

0:55.0

I got to say that right now.

0:56.1

I hear you.

0:56.5

All right, so look, I'm not good.

0:57.5

I told you guys, I got to do what I got to do. No, I know. It's good. You got to keep everybody in the right place in this joint.

0:55.0

I got to say that right now.

1:13.8

I hear you. I told you guys when we started this show January 5th, you can't overreact to a great win in February or a bad loss in February. But something happened yesterday that honestly, you're going to have to go into the angels on this one. I don't know that it's ever happened before in the history of modern Eric Nick basketball.

1:46.2

And I'm not being like hyperbolic. 11 points in the third quarter? Because that happened in 20,000-22. Yes, that's happened. Yes. We've had an 11-point third quarter before. I think we've had some single-digit quarters. Is that a fact? In the modern era of Nick basketball. Nick with what, five consecutive 20-point games only takes five shots? No? You're getting closer now. So I'm going to tell you what it is. So everybody today is yelling and screaming about Carl Anthony Towns. Carl Anthony Towns last night, 14.7 rebounds, played less than 30 minutes in the game.

1:48.0

That third quarter, you know, game's over.

1:49.1

It's a wrap going into the fourth.

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