It's Over! Knicks Fans React to Epic Championship Moment

A simple “Bang!” wouldn’t have done it justice.

Mike Breen, ESPN’s lead broadcast voice for the NBA Finals and the longtime voice of the Knicks for MSG Network, got to make arguably the biggest call of his play-by-play career on Saturday night.

“It’s over! It’s over! Knick fans, this is not a dream!” Breen, a Yonkers native said as the clock ticked down on the Knicks’ 94-90 win in Game 5 of the NBA Finals, a victory that gave them their first title since 1973. “Your long, long wait is ended. Go ahead and cry: after 53 years, the Knicks are finally NBA Champions once again!”

The 65-year-old, well known for his iconic “Bang!” call to signify a big-shot shot, knew he’d have to keep his composure at the clock ticked to zero on a potential Knicks championship.

“The No. 1 thing for me is I’ve got a job to do and I have to do a professional job,” Breen said on a media call ahead of the NBA Finals. “And with all the responsibilities that go into it, both prior and during the course of the series, that’s what I’m concentrating on now.

“As the series goes on every year, no matter who’s in it, you try and think of OK, how am I going to word this? How am I going to wrap up, summarize, what this means to the winning team, what it means to the losing team, and you wait ’til the series goes on before you really get into those thoughts.”

Still, the man who grew up a Knicks fan and attended Fordham University in the Bronx, was not entirely ready to think about the possibility.

“I do know what it would mean to the city and to the fans of the city,” he said. “It might be one of the great moments in the history of New York sports if they win because of what the fan base has gone through and how loyal they’ve been to the team.

“As for my emotions, it’s hard to predict that.”

No need to try to anymore.