This Knicks team is something basketball has never seen
It shouldn’t look this easy. Climbing the road to the NBA Finals isn’t this easy. What the New York Knicks are doing is beyond comprehension. On the way to their first NBA Finals since 1999 the Knicks aren’t just sweeping their way through the playoffs, which they are, they are destroying teams and leaving zero doubt as to who is the better team. Karl-Anthony Towns said postgame “there’s nowhere better in the world than when The Garden has hope.” There isn’t just hope in the Mecca of Basketball, there is complete belief. When the playoffs started, the Atlanta Hawks were the hottest team in the NBA. The Hawks created a modern NBA juggernaut. The Knicks dispatched of Atlanta with the largest margin of victory in a close game in NBA history with a 140-89 win on the road. Philadelphia came back from a 3-1 deficit against a Boston Celtics team that was the favorite to come out of the Eastern Conference when the playoffs started. But the 76’ers didn’t belong on the same floor as the K...
