Larry David: Knicks’s Game 4 Comeback Is the #1 New York Sports Moment Ever

Larry David has seen a lot of New York sports history. He ranks the Knicks' Game 4 comeback at the top of all of it.

"For me, I'm ranking it one," David told Rich, fresh off the Knicks' stunning Game 4 win.

He got there the hard way. David was still recovering when he came on the show. "Yesterday I was spent. Completely spent," he said. "I'm sure it shortened my life." He framed the whole thing as a double shock: not only was the comeback improbable, but the fact that he, of all people, was there to witness it. "I'm not supposed to be at stuff like that. I'm supposed to miss stuff."

The moment that nearly broke him was Josh Hart's miss. With a chance to give the Knicks the lead, the ball went off the back iron instead of the dunk, and David's reaction went viral. "How did he miss that? Oh my god, and now it's over," he remembered thinking. "If you miss that, you can't recover from that. We're done." He was, by his own account, devastated.

Rich reached for a painful precedent, Patrick Ewing's finger roll off the same kind of back iron against the Indiana Pacers in the 1995 series. David thought Hart's was the easier look, the kind of miss that would have lived in Knicks fans' brains far longer had the night ended there.

It did not end there, which is how David arrived at his ranking. Behind the comeback at number one, he slotted Bucky Dent's homer in the 1978 one-game playoff against the Red Sox at two. Then Aaron Boone off knuckleballer Wakefield to send the Yankees to the series. Then Matteau and the Rangers' 1994 run. Then David Tyree's helmet catch.

Rich noticed the omission. No Jets in the top five.

"I wonder why," David said.