Knicks’ skid-busting win has chance to put season’s first crisis in rearview mirror
NY Post
You could feel it up and down Madison Square Garden, especially across the first 35 or so minutes.
So many times this season the Garden has turned into a party by this time of the game. The basketball was almost incidental. The people in the building trusted them, knew they’d figure it out.
Not this time. The Clippers may have a bad record, but they have maybe the most electric 1-2 offensive show in the NBA in James Harden and Kawhi Leonard, and they were putting on a beauty. The Knicks were dragging a four-game losing streak into Wednesday night. They trailed most of those first 35 minutes. They have a West Coast trip upcoming.
The Garden was audibly nervous. One of the 19,812 in the house, sitting courtside in Celebrity Row, was country music star Luke Combs. And when they introduced Combs, one of his most famous songs blared from the Garden amplifier, a feel-good anthem that you’ve surely heard even if you generally don’t know a honky-tonk from a Tonka truck.
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