Mike Breen Gets Emotional Over Knicks Title… and REVEALS the Triple BANG That Almost Happened! | The Carton Show with Chris McMonigle
WFAN Daily
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3.8 • 795 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The voice of the New York Knicks, Mike Breen, joined Craig Carton and Chris McMonigle on WFAN and delivered an unforgettable interview following the Knicks' historic championship.
Breen shares the incredible story of sleeping on a couch in an Atlanta Marriott after Game 5, reveals the origin of his iconic "BANG!" call, explains why Jalen Brunson belongs in the same mental toughness conversation as Kobe Bryant, and admits fans almost got the legendary TRIPLE BANG!
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| 0:00.0 | The voice of the New York Knicks and obviously way back in the day, one of the big voices here on WFN during the IMA show back in the early days of WFAN. The great Mike Breen joins us, I believe, from his home as he gets ready for tomorrow's festivities as well. Mike, it's Craig and Chris. Thank you so much for joining us. How are you doing, pal? I'm good. I'm good, guys. Thanks for having me on. That sounds like a tired man is what that sounds like. Have you done a couple of days? Well, I'm trying to recover. I had this, when I got back after the game the next day, San Antonio, I left my hotel at 8 a.m. Sunday morning, |
| 0:39.1 | and I walked into my house at 1 o'clock in the afternoon on Monday. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm sorry? |
| 0:44.4 | So it took me well about 28 hours to get home because of flight cancellations and diversions and a rental car ride. |
| 0:55.6 | It was one of the most wild finishes, but i could care less because it was it was all good that's crazy to me so al patagonia |
| 1:01.1 | doesn't have a spot on an apollo jet the next side you chose to stay in san antonio you like |
| 1:06.5 | the barbecue no no no i left the next morning but you, you know, after the game, our whole crew, |
| 1:13.0 | it's the final game of the season for the ABC crew. So we spent the night together. |
| 1:16.9 | And the next day, we're going. And I spent part of the night sleeping on a couch in the lobby |
| 1:24.2 | of a Marriott in Atlanta. In the... Okay, so that means... |
| 1:29.1 | The exciting life of the voice of the NBA. |
| 1:30.5 | So I want to get this right. |
| 1:31.6 | The voice of the NBA. |
| 1:33.1 | Amanda, is the voice of the New York Knicks for 30 plus years, |
| 1:36.4 | gets to celebrate the first championship since 1973. |
| 1:41.1 | You know, something that we never thought was going to happen. |
| 1:43.2 | Many of us had given up hope on it. |
| 1:45.3 | And if I'd walked into a Marriott Hotel in Atlanta, I would have seen you sleeping on a couch in the lobby. |
| 1:52.3 | Yeah, it's not it. |
| 1:53.3 | This is the Sunday night. |
| 1:55.0 | The game was obviously Saturday night, so we all as a crew went out afterwards. |
| 1:59.1 | But Sunday night, my flight, my last flight, which was |
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