There were a lot of things that could have happened on Monday as the New York Knicks (13-9) made their return home to play basketball inside MSG for the first time in more than a week.
Turns out not even the worst possible news—Mitchell Robinson out for more than two months, Immanuel Quickley missing the game—were bad enough to prevent the Knicks from inflicting the Toronto Raptors (9-14) a 136-130 wound in their visit to Manhattan.
And oh boy, was that a team effort with everybody stepping up when the franchise needed it the most and leveling up their collective game to beat the OVOs before embarking on a very daunting five-game road trip.