The New York Knicks faced the reigning champions on Thursday and the hosts were so good that the visitors would have loved to leave MSG by the end of the third quarter—no Nuggets starter logged a single minute in the final stanza.
New York beat Denver 122-84, limited the Nuggets to their lowest-scoring outing since the day I turned 26 (Jan. 13, 2018, at San Antonio, what a coincidence!), and turned a sour day in which Jalen Brunson got snubbed from starting at the upcoming ASG into a day to celebrate as the Knicks trounced the no.