00:00All right, let's bring it right away at the top.
00:01Craig Carton down at the Knicks Parade.
00:04What's up, Craig?
00:06All right, Tyrone.
00:07We got about a block away from the parade.
00:10There's got to be another million people
00:12that can't even get to Broadway right now
00:14in downtown Manhattan into the financial district.
00:19I'm now a good eight or nine blocks away.
00:21I try to get out to a place where I can talk to you.
00:24I'm born and raised in New York City,
00:26lived in the city as an adult for a decade,
00:29and the street I used to live on
00:31is right by the parade route a couple blocks away.
00:34I've never seen anything like it
00:35from just a sample of the amount of humanity
00:39that's on the streets of New York.
00:41And again, there's got to be a million people
00:42that can't even get to where the parade is happening right now.
00:46It started about an hour ago
00:47with floats and buses and convertibles and all that stuff.
00:51And it's one of the craziest, most surreal moments
00:55in my life as a New Yorker,
00:56where you actually, just imagine this,
00:59in the middle of Broadway, a block of Broadway,
01:01on a street called Worth Street in downtown New York,
01:04you have hundreds of thousands of people,
01:0710,000 police officers downtown,
01:10the largest police force showing
01:12for a planned event in New York City history.
01:14And then there's random dudes with tables set up
01:17in the middle of the street selling counterfeit goods.
01:20If that tells you about New York, then nothing will.
01:25But it's just one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
01:28Now, Craig, I got to ask you about this
01:30because you grew up in New York.
01:32I appreciate you.
01:33You love it.
01:34I see it's great to people.
01:36Obviously, the championship night was great.
01:38When you see this many people, Craig, out,
01:41what's this feeling like for you as a guy
01:43who dreamed about this when you were eight years old?
01:46Yeah, it's much like you with the Eagles.
01:50You almost don't know how to react to it.
01:52I had Jim Dolan on my radio show yesterday,
01:54and I asked him the same question.
01:56He compared it to having a bad dream
02:00about driving your car off the road,
02:02and then you wake up,
02:02and you don't know how to react to it because you didn't.
02:05And I think people are describing things
02:08kind of like that right now.
02:10Obviously thrilled, never thought I'd see it.
02:13I'm sure my life as a sports fan,
02:15is much, much different now as well.
02:17But it's surreal.
02:20And even when I see all these people rocking Nick's gear,
02:23and I'll show you a video later,
02:25there's dogs in Nick's gear and cats in Nick's gear.
02:28There's like albino anorexic women walking around
02:32on stilts in Nick's gear.
02:34And it's every bit as crazy as I'm sure
02:38Ben Franklin Parkway was a few years back
02:40when the Eagles won their first one.
02:42Yeah, it was crazy.
02:43It was something I didn't expect to see,
02:44and it was almost overwhelming.
02:46This morning, for people to understand,
02:48I get on the train at 727,
02:51and there were a lot of Nick's fans there
02:52who were already having to make alternative plans
02:56because it was already filled at 727 this morning.
02:59Just crazy.
03:00Just speak on one more time,
03:02if you don't mind,
03:02how many people you saw trying to get down
03:05to the parade route.
03:07Look, so let me just dovetail what you just said
03:10about your train experience.
03:11I leave my house at 630 in the morning every morning
03:14to come to 35th and 8th,
03:16which is a block away from Madison Square Garden,
03:18and about a mile and a half from where I am right now.
03:21Normally, on a bad day with traffic,
03:23I might get to two hours.
03:26Without traffic, I'm about just under an hour door-to-door.
03:30It took me four and a half hours
03:32to get into the city today.
03:34Wow.
03:35On a drive that's normally about an hour.
03:37And I would tell you,
03:39when the estimates are in,
03:41you know, I've been saying for a year and a half now
03:43that if the Knicks ever won a championship,
03:45I think we'd get 3 million people.
03:47Yeah.
03:48I think if you count in the people
03:50that can't get to Broadway where the actual parade is,
03:53I think we might be looking at north of 4 million people
03:55all gathered here in New York City for the Knick Parade,
03:59which, look, we've had a lot of parades in New York City.
04:02We've honored sports teams.
04:03We've honored astronauts.
04:04We've honored world leaders in the last 100-plus years.
04:08The New York Knicks didn't get a parade in 1970 when they won.
04:11They didn't get a parade in 1973 when they won
04:13because at the time, Mayor Lindsey thought it was too expensive.
04:17So this is, although our third championship,
04:19it's the first-ever parade.
04:21And for people that don't love sports
04:23or understand how sports is part of the public trust,
04:27as you experienced in Philadelphia,
04:29as the Chicago experienced where the Cubs won
04:31for the first time in 100-plus years,
04:33that's what we're experiencing right now.
04:35And I think people now get a better understanding
04:37of why sports is so important to us
04:40and how real and tangible that is.
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