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DiPietro & Rothenberg

Hour 2: Do the Knicks need Giannis?

DiPietro & Rothenberg

ESPN

Sports

4.6626 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The Knicks lost last night, and there's some discussion that this team has a ceiling. Do the Knicks need Giannis Antetokounmpo? Also, Louis Riddick stops by! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is the D.P.O. and Rothenburg podcast. Let the wild rumpets begin. Listen live

0:36.6

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0:48.5

This is D.P.A. Rowan-Rothenberg.

0:52.3

You are where your record says you are. You're not good at this job.

0:56.0

Nobody's perfect, and the chance of me batting a thousand are gone, because I've made mistakes. He's a nice guy. I want him to succeed. He's not a good GM. We're two wins. We're not there. We've got to do better. It starts with me. I take responsibility for that. Should the Giants be better than that? Yes. Two wins is not where we want to be right now.

1:10.5

It's not good enough.

1:11.2

We're going to do everything we can to get this thing going in the right direction.

1:14.4

This... for that. Should the Giants be better than that? Yes. Two wins is not where we want to be right now. It's not good enough. We're going to do everything we can to get this thing going in the right direction.

1:14.2

This is D. Pietro and Rothenberg on ESPN, New York, and streaming live on YouTube.

1:44.3

All right, DNR with you, ESPN, New York. We roll along on a Wednesday morning right in the middle of the week, right? You're right in that no man's land of the week. Week 14 of the NFL starts tomorrow night, by the way, which is just wild that we're there already. It happened fast. It always does. All right, let's bring them in.

1:47.9

Time for the Riddick report brought to you by Sloan's, the great Lewis Riddick.

1:48.6

Lewis, good morning.

1:49.1

How are you? Good, good. How are you guys doing? Well, I'm a big Giants fan, so I've had better days. but let's start out with asking you about what you thought, just kind of give you the whole, you know, enchilada.

2:01.5

What did you think about yesterday's press conference? asking you about what you thought, just kind of give you the whole, you know, enchilada.

2:01.5

What did you think about yesterday's press conference from Joe Shane?

2:08.5

Look, I saw bits and pieces of it, but honestly, I try not to get too far in the weeds with what's going on there because there's just so much.

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