Tag: Mike Breen

Even Mike Breen and Madison Square Garden are jumping in on Knicks fans’ BING BONG meme

BING BONG

BING BONG!!!

OK, so the New York Knicks didn’t win on Monday night — the Toronto Raptors won 113-104 at Madison Square Garden.

But that hasn’t stopped anyone from using BING BONG, the weirdest catchphrase that’s become a meme for Knicks die-hards after it was dropped in a video (it’s meant to evoke the sound played before the subway doors close on New York trains).

On Monday, we found out that MSG has started using it … and so has Mike Breen, who calls Knicks games when he isn’t saying “BANG!” on national NBA contests.

Here are both clips and they’re both great:

BING BONG!

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Mike Breen’s hilarious call of Kawhi Leonard ‘going crazy’ while watching Clippers is an instant classic

Brilliant call.

There are a few certainties in life, and two of them are that play-by-play man Mike Breen will deliver incredible calls of NBA games, and Kawhi Leonard isn’t going to show his emotions much (there are exceptions!).

Those two things met on Saturday night during the Phoenix Suns’ 84-80 win over the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals. Midway through the third quarter, Paul George hit a mid-range shot as the Clips attempted to catch up, and cameras cut to an injured Kawhi Leonard watching from the Staples Center crowd. Fans were going nuts, but Leonard was his usual measured self. Without missing a beat, Breen remarked, “Kawhi Leonard going crazy!”

As Leonard might say, “A HA HA HA HA!”

Brilliant call, an all-time instant classic.

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WATCH: Hall of Fame announcer Mike Breen confuses Tacko Fall with famous fast-food chain

In truth, it’s probably not the first time Fall has heard this, though maybe the first time by mistake.

Sometimes, a Freudian slip can occur when you’re hungry enough to lose your focus, and that very well may have been the case for Hall of Fame NBA broadcaster Mike Breen covering the Boston Celtics in a recent game.

In the Celtics’ 96 – 92 loss to the New York Knicks closing out the 2020-21 regular season for the team on Sunday, Breen erroneously referred to Boston’s two way big man Tacko Fall as “Taco Bell,” immediately and hilariously correcting himself mid-call. Evidently, even (recently elected) Hall of Fame NBA media members can botch a call spectacularly at times, and this was perhaps as good (and unintentionally funny) an example as any.

Truth be told, it’s probably not the first time someone made that joke — just the first time it’s happened on a nationally-televised NBA game.

Watch the clip embedded above captured by SLAM!’s own World Wide Wob to hear the verbal snafu for yourself.

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Mike Breen called Tacko Fall ‘Taco Bell’ by accident and then had a perfect reaction to his mistake

“Oh my goodness.”

Mike Breen has long been one of the best announcers in sports but even the best sometimes make silly little mistakes.

That happened to Breen during Sunday’s Celtics-Knicks game at Madison Square Garden when he had a little slip when he called Boston’s big man, Tacko Fall, Taco Bell.

Breen, who on Friday night was presented the Curt Gowdy Award at the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2020 class of inductees, had a great reaction to his mistake. So did his partner on the broadcast, former Knicks great Walt Frazier.

The two longtime announcers played this off pretty darn well:

Twitter enjoyed it:

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Mike Breen’s call of the Luka Doncic game-winner was his greatest ever

What a moment, what a call.

Mike Breen’s “BANG!” call on shot during NBA games has become iconic as the longtime broadcaster has spent nearly a decade and a half as the national voice of the league on television broadcasts.

We’ve heard so many of his calls attached to some of the most breathtaking moments in the past few years — remember LeBron James’ block in Game 7 in 2016? You’ll always hear it as “OH BLOCKED BY JAMES!” — but the one he delivered on Sunday is his all-time best.

Let’s review: we got not one but two “BANG” shouts, during a playoff buzzer-beater, and during a game taking place with no real fans in the stands.

Heck, even LeBron James cited the call:

To me, that last part is the clincher. I’ve listened to many a sports broadcast these days with no fans in the stands, and even with some of the piped-in sounds, it can be hard for play-by-play announcers to match the intensity they would normally have during a huge moment. But Breen didn’t let that stop him.

I’d say No. 2 was his similar double-“BANG” when he called Steph Curry’s deep three-pointer against the Thunder in 2016, which is in this compilation:

Amazing calls, but Sunday’s was the best.

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As most League Pass obsessives would …

As most League Pass obsessives would guess, the Brooklyn Nets (+147) and New York Knicks (106) had the two most loved broadcasts. These are a little bit of a cheat code for MSG (Knicks) and YES (Nets) because they attract arguably the two best play-by-play announcers in the NBA. The Nets have Ian Eagle doing the majority of the broadcasts for their local viewings, when he isn’t off filling in NBA games on TNT, college basketball and NFL on CBS, or The French Open for the Tennis Channel. The Knicks have Mike Breen doing the majority of their local broadcasts when ABC and ESPN don’t tear him away for nationally televised games.