When it was announced that the Boston Celtics would sit their stars for tonight’s preseason game, a Knicks’ victory seemed certain. Thanks to that pest Payton Pritchard, the savant Svi Mykhailiuk, and rust, New York’s finest struggled to put away the visitors for much of the game, finally prevailing 114-107.
Boston was playing the second game of a back-to-back, so Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Jrue Holiday, Kristaps Porzingis, and Derrick White all sat out of tonight’s tilt. Coach Joe Mazzulla confirmed that while none of the players were hurt, they had contracted a Latvian strain of the Missagame virus from Porzingis.