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Carton GOES OFF on Knicks Doubters After HISTORIC NBA Finals Run | The Carton Show with Chris McMonigle

WFAN Daily

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3.8794 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Craig reacts to the Knicks’ dominant playoff run, calls out all the doubters who trashed Mike Brown, Mikal Bridges, and Leon Rose earlier this season, and explains why this Knicks team is unlike ANYTHING the NBA has ever seen.

From Jalen Brunson’s leadership to the Knicks destroying teams in closeout games, Carton says this run has officially become historic. Plus, Craig gives credit to James Dolan and Leon Rose for letting the PLAYERS have the spotlight after winning the Eastern Conference.

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0:00.0

2 o'clock straight up! It's the Cardin Show with Big Mac.

0:08.2

What a great day to be alive.

0:11.4

Tuesday, May 26th, after a lovely Memorial Day weekend of Nick Basketball at Domination.

0:20.4

The greatest, the one-month run in NBA history,

0:25.1

whether that be regular season, whether that be postseason,

0:29.4

the most dominant wins, fourth quarter closeouts,

0:33.6

20, 30, 40 point victories.

0:36.6

And now we get to sit and wait as the spurs and thunder beat the crap out of each other.

0:43.2

The New York Knicks are four wins away from a championship, bitches.

0:49.8

Good afternoon, Big Mac.

0:51.3

How are you?

0:51.7

I'm doing great, Craig.

0:52.7

How did we get here?

0:53.9

How did we get here back to back? Off of the Philly, we had to wait off the Philly series. Here we are again, sweeping in the Eastern Conference finals, awaiting to see who they're going to take in the NBA finals. It is stunning, shocking, and you know what? I don't want to get used to it because you said it.

1:11.4

This is the most dominant basketball ever played in the history of the NBA.

1:16.5

That's honestly what we've seen.

1:18.5

Regular season, postseason.

1:19.9

It doesn't matter.

1:20.9

Since someone decided to throw a basketball into a peach basket for money.

1:26.5

There you go.

1:27.0

For money, we have not seen a dominant force like this. I still can't believe it. Close-out games are jokes. Every one of them. Every one of these closed-out games are done in the first or second. Jaylon has to play in the fourth quarter of a close-out game yet this postseason. Like, let that sink in. Our best player has not had to get off the bench in the fourth quarter. There's so much to talk about. Obviously, this is a moment we've not had. In a long time, we obviously went to the finals of 99, went to the finals in 94. You're talking to quarter century plus. So this is a moment we are going to enjoy, not just today, every day this week, every day next week, until June 3rd when the NBA finals start. And that's the date. It doesn't matter what happens, Thunder Spurs. It didn't matter how long this series when the NBA, because of TV rights, all that stuff, have those dates locked in. So June 3rd is when it all starts. It's obviously going to start out of the San Antonio, or Oklahoma City. But I don't even want to talk about those two teams today. I say all the time, I've told you this since I met you. You have to live in the moment. You have to enjoy this for every ounce it's worth. Because as we know, it's fleeting. It doesn't come around that much.

2:45.5

But there is one aspect of yesterday that nobody anywhere with a microphone in front of their mouth has acknowledged, other than me, of course, that I want to acknowledge.

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