I don’t suppose Karl-Anthony Cities actually believes this. Cities has been within the league lengthy sufficient to know higher than to imagine in something apart from expertise and execution. That is his second convention finals. This was his fifth time as an All-Star, his third as All-NBA. Cities has earned in extra of $200 million, and is due one other $100 million-plus extra, minimal, the subsequent two years.
There’s nothing mystical about that. Expertise guidelines the day within the NBA. Expertise cashes the checks.
But this was Cities Tuesday evening, a couple of minutes earlier than midnight, about an hour after the Pacers schooled the Knicks 130-121 to maneuver inside one recreation of ending their season. Cities had performed valiantly, 24 factors and 12 rebounds, however he sat at a podium along with his left leg stretched out, because of a knee-to-knee collision late within the recreation.
“We think coming into the fourth quarter that we are going to find that one trick to get us to that win,” Cities stated. “We just didn’t have that magic tonight.”
