
A Game 5 win vs. Pistons will give Knicks first Garden clincher since 1999
NY Post
So much has changed for the Knicks in the past calendar year.
Expectations have risen.
The makeup of the roster underwent a drastic makeover.
There has been criticism of what this team should or should not look like.
Despite it all, coach Tom Thibodeau’s team finds itself almost back where it has been the previous two years: the Eastern Conference semifinals.
A win Tuesday night at what will almost certainly be a raucous Madison Square Garden, and the Knicks will advance in the postseason for the third consecutive season and likely get a crack at the defending champion Celtics.

Suddenly, someone had hit a rewind button and everyone had been transported back seven months. It was early spring instead of late fall, it was broiling hot outside the arena walls and not freezing cold. Everyone was back at TD Garden. There were 19,156 frenzied fans on their feet begging for blood, poised for the kill.












