So the Knicks are one game away from winning it all again, heading down to Texas to see if they can get that game, the way they tried to do that in June of 1994, when they had three wins against the Houston Rockets and went looking for a…
So this is how it ended in Game 1 in San Antonio, in the first game for the Knicks in the NBA Finals in 27 years: They finished 11-0 on the night when they made it 12 wins in a row in the NBA playoffs.
He is as valuable a player as there is in the NBA, and that includes Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Victor Wembanyama and Nikola Jokic and anybody else you care to mention.
This isn’t about who the Knicks have played. It is about how they have played, passing and running and defending and making shots from all over Atlanta and Philly and now Cleveland, and 33rd St. most of all.
But through Friday night’s loss, they had lost 10 of their last 14 games, against the Brewers and Orioles and Mets and Blue Jays, only one of which had a winning record when going up against them.
If the Knicks do finish off the Cavaliers in four or five games, it happens to be crazy to think that they’ll be some kind of crazy underdog going into the NBA Finals.
We know how great Brunson can be at this time of year, he keeps showing us. KAT is great, too, right now, playing like one of the best Knicks’ big man they’ve never had at this time of year.
If they do put the 76ers away on Sunday afternoon, they will have done something no Knicks team, not even in the glory years, ever did, which is win seven playoff games in a row.
