
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.

Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.











