He watches more basketball than he leads on. Some days he mentions in passing "I was watching the Blazers game last night..." and it's usually a reaction from me but then I remember okay yeah he does follow the NBA but it's not like he used to. When the Knicks were great in the 90s he and Dog went to games and followed the NBA like crazy. Mike has a lot of knowledge from the 70s and 80s NBA too. Sometime around the Knicks demise he began to watch less and less but the last few years he's been much more into it. He even has NBA analyst guests on quite frequently now.
most people dont realize when da knicks was da knicks ewing/reily era mike hosted the MSG post game show that went for 45minutes for damn near a decade
he knows his bball & madd dog too
i dont know exactly what happen (i stll dont believe its was just the knicks being bad) BUT from the early '00s the WFAN jumped ship on the NBA