According to ESPN’s win probability calculator, with 28.2 seconds left in the game, there was a 95.4% chance that I wouldn’t have to delete the article that I had prepared to publish. To be honest, I was looking forward to the 95.4% range of outcomes in which I posted a piece about Jalen Brunson’s excellent closeout performance. Statistically speaking, there was about a 1 in 20 chance that this wouldn’t be about the Knicks taking care of business in a Game 5 at MSG. But here we are.
Sometimes you play the odds. Sometimes the odds play you.