The Knicks couldn’t beat the Pacers away from home as the NBA decided to help the small market team instead of the one with five-and-a-half healthy men on the day.
New York will have to keep working and fighting and playing basketball for five games at the very least before earning a place in the Eastern Conference Finals, and making things worse they will be on the court early on Sunday with a 3:30 ET tip-off.
Here is what a bunch of those involved in Friday’s affair had to say before and after the game.