This is as close to a perfect night as you can conjure in this jigsaw puzzle season the Knicks are crafting for themselves. Oh, sure, they won the game, and handily, because the opponent, the Hawks, reside in the same low-rent, Baltic Avenue/Mediterranean Avenue district with which the Knicks are so familiar.
The 143 points the Knicks dropped on the Hawks is the most they’ve scored since 1980 — when even Vince Carter was just 3 years old. If someone would’ve subbed a red, white and blue ball sometime in the second quarter, nobody would’ve much complained.