Inconsistent. Slow-start. Disappointing. We’ve heard all of these words, plus more, to describe the Knicks’ season so far. But after Wednesday’s Christmas Day thriller, they’re 20-10, have managed to go 9-2 in December, and are in the midst of a five-game winning streak that has inched them to just two games behind the defending champion Boston Celtics for second place in the conference.
Tonight, they’ll look to continue their hot streak and extend their aforementioned winning streak against the Magic, who the Knicks have seemingly played two years’ worth of games against already this season. Even crazier than the fact that this is the third meeting between these two teams over the last three and a half weeks is the fact that the Knicks will be playing the third different iteration of this team over that span.