The last time the New York Knicks made the playoffs was the first time it happened while I was covering them. This made May of 2021 not only unprecedented in how fun it was, but how busy. Writing about the Knicks when the playoffs come around is not all that dissimilar from what I imagine it must be like playing for them in the playoffs. Your intensity rises. As gametime nears, your adrenaline picks up. Your focus narrows — after 82 games trying to find or spin meaning wherever you can, in the postseason the games, as Tom Thibodeau is fond of saying, tell you what to do.
P&T May mailbag time machine
