It’s been a decade since they’ve made it this far in the playoffs. A combination of skill, grit, and luck could propel them farther.
and is the author of six books, including the novel"How Lucky."If you feel like marking the inexorable and bewitching passage of time, look no further than theWhen the Knicks beat the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday night to finish off a shockingly easy first-round win, many noted that it had been 3,646 days since their last triumph in the postseason with a first-round win over a very old Boston Celtics team on May 3, 2013. That was obviously quite a long time ago.
If you’re into numerology or sequencing — or if you’ve just watched the Knicks for the past 23 years — it will be 5,816 days until theKnicks playoff victory. So mark your calendars for April 2039 on the off chance we’re not all dead by then. This is all to say: Whatever your thoughts on the current Knicks team or their future, it would be wise to try to soak the moment in, to appreciate what’s unfolding in front of you. Because it might be quite a while before it happens anew.
Then again: It’s entirely possible the next series win could come as soon as ten days from now. It has been that kind of postseason thanks to the Knicks’ stellar play and a healthy dose of luck. Put it this way: If you were trying to engineer a scenario in which the Knicks have the best possible chance to make their first NBA Finals appearance since 1999 , this would be the exact scenario you’d construct.
Thursday night provided the road map. After the Knicks finished their relentless pummeling of the Cavaliers, the most stunning upset in an already stunning NBA playoffs season went down: The No. 8-seeded Miami Heat, who had to win a play-in game against Chicago just to make the postseason at all, upset the No. 1 Milwaukee Bucks in five games. That means the Knicks will miss the Bucks in favor of a team that had a worse record than the, and it will face them with a home-court advantage.
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