In what will be go down as The Trey Burke Game, New York showed what’s possible when 10 fingers work as two fists. The bench did work all night and the starters added enough to co-sign the signature win of the season, a 117-109 fuck yeah! both more and less competitive than the final score says.
The Knicks got up big and never relinquished the lead. While their first wire-to-wire win since January was not without late drama, this was intelligent design: 40-something minutes of blowing Boston out, then seeing the game get just close enough, just late enough, to deliver a gut-punch to the solar plexus one of American history’s most deserving gut-punchees.