These are the stolen moments when it doesn’t hurt your soul to be a Knicks fan, when you can get carried away by the moment, when you can seek temporary amnesia for what you’ve endured the past couple of decades and a brief respite from the here and now. It is still possible for Madison Square Garden to sound like this.
It is still possible for the arena to elevate its athletes.
Not every night, no.
On this night?
“It was so electric in here,” RJ Barrett said. “I hope that’s just the first of many nights I get to feel it the way I felt it tonight.