Gregg Giannotti fired again at Carl Banks on Tuesday after the Giants legend criticized the WFAN host for calling Knicks star Karl-Anthony Cities a “loser” on Monday’s present.
Giannotti, who co-hosts “Boomer and Gio” on WFAN with Boomer Esiason, opened Tuesday’s present defending his take and expressing shock over the robust response from Banks.
“I wasn’t making it personal about Karl-Anthony Towns. He assumed I did,” Giannotti mentioned. “Then he made it private about me. The identical manner that Carl Banks feels about us, which means discuss present hosts who didn’t play [professional sports]. The way you guys can’t consider sports activities since you didn’t play, is the best way I really feel about Carl Banks when he begins chiming in on stuff like this. Go away these items as much as us.
“The way you don’t respect our opinions on sports. I don’t respect your opinions on media, because he’s not very good at it. He doesn’t understand. His comprehension was terrible yesterday, and he spent years on this radio station putting people to sleep.”
The unique feedback made by Giannotti ignited a firestorm of responses, together with a blistering take from Banks.
“This is genuinely pathetic,” Banks wrote Monday on X alongside a social media clip of Giannotti speaking about Cities. “Calling a man you’ve never met a ‘loser’ says far more about you than it ever could about him. I’ve known Kat and his family since he was a kid — there’s absolutely nothing about him that resembles a loser. Try being a better human instead of broadcasting this ignorant s–t.”
Giannotti contended that he by no means commented on Cities as an individual and that his feedback had been strictly in regards to the Knicks star’s efficiency on the court docket.
Banks has a little bit of a frosty relationship with WFAN after he had a really public cut up from the station, the place he had executed common appearances.
Banks and noon hosts Brandon Tierney and Sal Licata had gotten right into a heated debate over Kayvon Thibodeaux in 2023 that ended with Licata chopping the dialog brief by telling his producer to carry the previous footballer’s cellphone line down.
He resigned from his weekly spot on WFAN after the incident, regardless of one of the best efforts of station administration to mediate the scenario.
