This really couldn’t have broken better for the Knicks, because if we are being honest, the road before them is paved with possibility.
The most addictive drug in sports isn’t a prescription or a narcotic at all. It’s simpler than that. It’s optimism, cut with hope, laced with a few ounces of faith. Sports fans eat a lot of mud in their lives as sports fans, so this is perfectly understandable; you get a team that offers all three of those ingredients, it’s easy to forfeit your cynical proclivities.
The 2010 Jets were like that. They went on the road and beat Peyton Manning in Indianapolis. They went on the road and beat Tom Brady in New England. It felt like they were exorcising every ghost in their extensive dossier. Except Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers turned out to be flesh-and-blood party poopers on the road to the Canyon of Heroes.
And there’s more. The Knicks are playing their best basketball right now, and it’s everyone. Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart, who learned so much about winning essential games at Villanova, have thus far seamlessly transferred that subtle gift to these playoffs. RJ Barrett just played three of the best games of his pro career.
If Randle misses time in this coming series with Miami that could certainly adjust the prism of how we see the Knicks, but there is also this: The Knicks finished the Cavs off in Game 5 without him for a half, did the same when he was benched in the fourth quarter of Game 4 and ran them out of the building when he was ineffective in Game 3.Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post
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