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Stugotz and Company

Big Stu-ey: Country is Behind the Knicks (w/Dave Pasch)

Stugotz and Company

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Sports

4.913.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Fresh of calling the Eastern Conference Finals where the New York Knicks swept the Cleveland Cavaliers, Dave Pasch joins the guys to talk about the feel in Madison Square Garden, his old friend Bill Walton, and his journey from Syracuse to ESPN.

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0:00.0

He is fresh off his call of the 2012 NBA Eastern Conference Finals on ESPN Radio.

0:27.9

He's one of the best in the business.

0:29.4

Dave Pass joins us right now.

0:31.7

And also, you can check him out.

0:32.7

The NBA Finals will tip off on ABC at 8.30 p.m.

0:36.2

Eastern on Wednesday, June 3rd. Dave Pash, are the Knicks winning at all?

0:41.8

First of all, thanks for the kind words. Look, man, there's a chance. I was surprised that a lot of people still felt the winner of O.K.C. in San Antonio was guaranteed to win the finals. You don't win 11 in a row the way the Knicks are winning it, not be capable of winning at all. It wouldn't surprise me if they want it. And I think the longer this go, if it goes to seven, the better chance the Knicks have, because the Spurs and Thunder just beating the snot out of each other right now. Dave, I've always wanted to ask you this. I've talked to Sean McDonough and others about it. Is there a sport that you prefer calling? Like, is there a sport that you enjoy the most? Because you've called so many big games and so many different sports, I'm wondering if you prefer one over the other. It's a great question. I get asked it a lot. I don't know. I love that I don't have to

1:29.3

choose, at least not yet. I like the fact that, you know, I can do the NFL, I can do college football,

1:35.2

NBA, college hoops still here and there. I enjoy it all. I mean, there's something special

1:41.0

about each of them. And so it's really hard to just say I enjoy this particular sport, college or pro over the

1:47.5

other.

1:48.6

Dave, I've gotten priced out of going to next games right now at Madison Square Garden.

1:53.7

And since you were on the call, can you just put me in the building and kind of set the

1:58.2

scene for me what the atmosphere was like?

2:01.5

It was nuts.

2:07.2

What really shocked me was how wild it was in Cleveland, how many Nick fans there were there.

2:11.3

We were surrounded where our booth position was by Nick fans everywhere.

2:16.6

But the garden was, and I've done a lot of games there, I did Big East Tournament games the year Kemble Walker and

2:18.6

Yukon made that incredible run to win the Big East tournament. And the day games were packed

2:24.4

with college basketball fans, Big East fans, Yukon fans. And it was loud the entire time. But I've

2:32.2

never heard it as loud as I heard it during the Easter conference finals.

2:35.0

It was insane.

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