Christopher \u201cMad Dog\u201d Russo owes Mike Breen a talking to after the voice of the New York Knicks hosted their championship parade.<\/p>\n
The Knicks paraded down the Canyon of Heroes Thursday morning in New York City to celebrate breaking their 53-year championship drought after beating the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA Finals. And as the parade landed at City Hall, Mike Breen was behind the podium<\/a> to host the championship ceremony.<\/p>\n To be clear, it would have been a failure of epic proportions if Breen was not involved on parade day. There would have been an uproar if fans didn\u2019t hear from Breen Thursday morning, and rightly so. Breen is a New Yorker, he\u2019s a Knicks fan, he\u2019s the voice of the Knicks. But he\u2019s also the voice of the NBA. And when Joe Davis, the lead TV voice of the Dodgers, hosted their championship ceremony after calling their World Series win on Fox last year, Russo blew a gasket on his SiriusXM radio show<\/a> Mad Dog Unleashed.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s Chris Russo absolutely bludgeoning Joe Davis for hosting the Dodgers World Series parade with a vintage Mad Dog rant. pic.twitter.com\/oukA6aAA5Y<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) November 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe body\u2019s not even cold yet! And I got Joe at Dodger Stadium doing the freaking Dodger parade! Oh my god! That\u2019s bad! I\u2019m sorry! I don\u2019t care what you say!\u201d Russo ranted. \u201cHe\u2019s the announcer for the World Series! You think Curt Gowdy was getting any of this nonsense? You think Garagiola was doing the parade in \u201982 with the Cardinals? Oh my God!\u201d<\/p>\n Now, do Breen. Because Curt Gowdy and Joe Garagiola may not have hosted championship parades after calling the championship series on national TV, but Breen did. And so did Joe Davis, which should not be considered a reflection on how they call championship series\u2019 for national TV networks.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s the voice of the World Series! He\u2019s supposed to be right down the middle! Obviously, he\u2019s rooting his ass off for the Dodgers in the World Series!\u201d Russo said during his rant last year. \u201cAnd his call at the end was ridiculous!\u201d<\/p>\n Russo intimated Davis showed his Dodgers bias in the final call of their 2025 World Series championship for saying, \u201cto beat the champ, ya gotta knock them out, the Dodgers stand tall.\u201d Now, do Breen, who was encouraged by Joe Buck<\/a> to let his Knicks fandom show a bit when they broke their championship drought.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s over! It\u2019s over! Knick fans, this is not a dream!\u201d Breen said. \u201cYour long, long wait has ended! Go ahead and cry! After 53 years, the Knicks are finally NBA champions once again!\u201d<\/p>\n Russo is one of the few native New Yorkers who is not a Knicks fan, but he is a Mike Breen fan. The two have known each other since Breen was the sports anchor for Don Imus on WFAN and Russo was starring on Mike and the Mad Dog.<\/p>\n And Russo probably knows Breen did everything right with this championship. His final call of the 2026 NBA Finals spoke directly to Knicks fans, and every single person associated with the team wanted him to be there at the championship ceremony.<\/p>\n The problem is, Russo also probably never thought the Knicks were going to win a championship in the near future when he roasted Davis for hosting the Dodgers championship ceremony. But if Russo is going to rip Davis for his final call, and for hosting the Dodgers parade, he owes Breen the same energy.<\/p>\n \t