
Knicks’ ‘soft’ starters hit rock bottom with Tom Thibodeau dug in
NY Post
Mikal Bridges said it best.
He didn’t pull any punches.
Really, how could he? The problem has been that bad. That glaring. That recurring.
Why are the starters struggling so much when on the court together?
“Maybe,” Mikal Bridges said after the Knicks’ 114-109 Game 2 loss to the Pacers on Friday night at Madison Square Garden, “we’re playing a little too soft in the beginning of halves.”
Friday played out like it has so many times this postseason.

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.












