Buckle up, Knicks followers, the long-downtrodden franchise’s first journey to the Jap Convention finals in a quarter-century lastly has arrived, starting with what is certain to be an electrical environment for Recreation 1 on Wednesday evening at MSG.
With the top-seeded Cavaliers and the defending champion Celtics at residence honing their golf and pickleball video games, the Knicks drew a traditionally and lately acquainted foe within the NBA’s convention closing spherical.
Reggie Miller and the Pacers, in fact, had been a standard opponent with six playoff conferences in eight seasons from 1993-2000. Tyrese Haliburton and the present-day Pacers additionally knocked the banged-up Knicks out of the second spherical in seven video games one 12 months in the past.
Listed here are three issues that must occur for the Knicks to win the collection and advance to the NBA Finals for the primary time since 1999, and three explanation why they might lose it:
