Part II, The Script When the final horn echoes through the arena, Tommy Heinsohn only allows himself thirty seconds to savor the moment. He counts the seconds down, just as he’d counted down from 4.1 seconds to 0.6 seconds moments earlier, and in that time, the exponentiality of the curve of his smile grows larger [...]

This is the second in a (hopefully ongoing) series of entries in which your intrepid journalist watches the Knickerbockers and provides a (mostly) unedited Hunter S. Thompson/Bill Simmons-esque Gonzo running diary of the evening’s events. Here’s the first installment. Because I have neither the time, financial wherewithal or media clout to schlep to Bahh-stin to [...]

To say that the basketball gods have frowned upon the New York Knickerbockers these last two games would be an understatement as big as Zeus’s spites were bountiful. Two days after a series of questionable calls led to the Celtics eking out a controversial 87-85 victory in Game 1, the Knicks once again let a [...]

… it’s for leaving Jared Jeffries on the floor in the final offensive play in Game 2 against the Celtics. I like D’Antoni as a coach. I think in general it would be a mistake for the Knicks to let such a good coach go. Mainly because the average NBA coach isn’t as good as [...]

Game  Thread.

Based on game one, the Knicks have a few things to ponder. 1. Can New York reclaim the pace? Even though the Knicks were leading most of the way, the Celtics dictated the tempo. There were a lot of offensive rebounds and a few fast breaks. Basketball-reference calculates the pace at 83.3, which is below [...]

Part I, The Event. It was fifty-five degrees in Boston that night, but inside Corporate Sponsor Garden it was much warmer, and that wasn’t just because the thermostat was set at seventy degrees. No, there had been a geological Event at the arena, two teams tectonically grinding against one another for forty-eight minutes. Unbeknownst to [...]