The Knicks are captivating New York, but Mike Francesa doesn\u2019t believe the New York media is returning the favor by doing the Knicks much justice.<\/p>\n
New York is divided when it comes to the Jets and Giants, they\u2019re split on the Mets and Yankees, and even the Rangers and Islanders. The Brooklyn Nets have their fanbase, but the city is undoubtedly dominated by the Knicks more than any other professional sports team in the area. When the Knicks are good, everyone is interested, and as they get closer to ending their 53-year championship drought, it\u2019s all anyone wants to talk about. But at a minimum, Mike Francesa wants you to know what you\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s so silly,\u201d Francesa complained. \u201cAll the local news shows want to get involved in all the Knick mania and all the craziness, but you would think they would rely on not just their No. 1 sportscaster that they have who deliverers the 11 o\u2019clock news to you, the Bruce Becks of the world. You would think they would use their secondary and tertiary people in that role to report. They put people out there who obviously don\u2019t know if it\u2019s blown up or has feathers! And also, couldn\u2019t name two Knicks at gunpoint. And they\u2019re reporting on the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Local news channels might not have an entire team of sports anchors and reporters available the way they used to. And when those same local news channels are trying to have as many stories on the Knicks as possible, there will be anchors or reporters covering those stories who don\u2019t have a sports background.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou gotta do better,\u201d Francesa continued. \u201cIf I can\u2019t trust you on this story to get anything right\u2026when something happens, how much can I trust the reporting when you\u2019re putting someone on the Knicks who doesn\u2019t know anything about basketball and has no idea who\u2019s on the team!\u201d<\/p>\n
Francesa took issue with those reporters getting basic facts wrong about the Knicks, claiming he was watching one local news network after Game 1, and they botched the final score and other stats while rolling highlights.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous,\u201d Francesa ranted. \u201cThey had no idea! They had the final score wrong, they had the halftime score wrong. It was unbelievable! You gotta do better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lucky for Knicks fans, they don\u2019t have to rely on local news networks for coverage of their favorite team during this Finals run. MSG Networks has offered exceptional pre and postgame coverage of the Knicks throughout the playoffs led by Bill Pidto, Alan Hahn, Wally Szczerbiak, Monica McNutt, and Alex Monaco. And if that\u2019s not enough, even Francesa has been offering his own postgame show after every playoff game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks are captivating New York, but Mike Francesa doesn\u2019t believe the New York media is returning the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[67672,7,87746,191,87747],"class_list":["post-756102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-2026-nba-finals","tag-basketball","tag-mike-francesa","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-the-mike-francesa-podcast"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116716834910961981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}