Dan Le Batard

Whenever Charles walks into a place, it's his party, his tab, and everyone knows he's there.

He's been used to it being like that for about 45 years.

It's their first finals ever.

ESPN is going through another round of layoffs this summer.

And I wanted to ask you guys about the broadcast and how great Mike Breen has been on the broadcast.

Because I don't know who's going to get laid off.

Not Mike Breen.

Really?

I thought you might.

The reason I'm thinking about it, though, is because his team is Richard Jefferson and Tim Legler.

And I really like Tim Legler in almost any form.

I catch him anywhere.

Richard Jefferson, less so.

But that broadcast team makes me think—and it's not like we didn't learn this at ESPN—

They don't actually know how to put people together in order to make the right combinations.

They hit it with Van Gundy and Mark Jackson and Breen, but that's a difficult thing to do to get the right combinations of three people.

But Breen has done an extraordinary job.

It is unbelievably rare for somebody to be in the position Breen is where he's the Knicks announcer and he's not being accused of bias by anybody.

Anybody, and that's always in play whenever a broadcaster's there, even if the broadcaster's not biased.

Joe Buck will tell you he's perpetually being hit with he's biased even though he's not.