The Knicks will be taking a step up in class, a middleweight challenging a heavyweight. There is no belt on the line and little on the table; the Celtics are 10 games clear of the Knicks.
— five wins in a row, seven out of eight, 17-9 since they were last at .500 three days before the New Year. They are a good team with ambitions of being very good.
Still, this is a chance. This is an opportunity. This is a night when the Knicks can provide a little more testimony that they can be more than just a nice little story come April, when the games start to matter a whole lot more.“We’re playing well,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said the other night, “but in this league you’d better not take a night off because teams will make you pay when you do.”
And if the game doesn’t mean much in a tangible sense to the Celtics … it’s still the Garden. It’s still New York City. And the Celtics are still the alpha dog in the Eastern Conference that wouldn’t mind sending a message to a batch of feisty Knicks, feeling their oats:Jayson Tatum and the Celtics currently have the best record in the NBA.“We expect a lot out of each other,” Celtics star Jayson Tatum said Saturday night in Philadelphia, after he hit a clutch game-winning 3 .
But now the Knicks find themselves with an opportunity to be very much in the conversation for the next level.Sunday drew the Knicks even with them for fifth in the East . They are 2 ½ games back of Cleveland for the fourth seed.
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