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  • Jalen Brunson Praises New York Knicks Teammates After Game 4 Win – Sports Illustrated
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  • Knicks take a 3-1 lead over the Celtics – Trumbull Times
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  • Knicks look to close out defending champion Celtics in Game 5 – WCVB
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  • Examining subtle reason Boston Celtics must win Game 5 against Knicks – MassLive
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  • NBA Playoffs picks, odds, schedule for Wednesday: Knicks, Timberwolves seek conference final berths – The New York Times
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  • 2025 NBA playoffs: Full schedule and results – NBA
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  • Peter?s Points: NBA Best Bets Today (Predictions, Prop Bets for Knicks-Celtics, Jalen Brunson) – Sports Illustrated
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  • Can Knicks eliminate the Celtics? Game 5 betting odds and our prediction – Bergen Record
    05/14/2025 08:03:49
     
  • What channel is Knicks vs Celtics today? Time, TV channel, streaming for Game 5 – Bergen Record
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  • Without Jayson Tatum, Celtics plan to ‘leave it all out there’ vs. Knicks – Reuters
    05/14/2025 07:50:20
     
  • Celtics-Knicks: 4 things to watch as Boston looks to stay alive without Jayson Tatum – NBA
    05/14/2025 05:59:49
     
  • Racer Payne accepts role of Knicks ?cheerleader? – Murray Ledger and Times
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  • NBA playoff takeaways: Pacers take series over Cavs, Thunder lead Nuggets – ESPN
    05/14/2025 04:28:00
     
  • Chasing History: Knicks Mania at MSG – NBA
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  • ?Indy vs. New York. They’re not used to that?: Keyshawn Johnson says Pacers can?t handle New York – IndyStar
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  • NBA Knicks vs. Celtics Game 5 preview, pick, and prediction – The Grandstand
    05/14/2025 03:38:50
     
  • Keyshawn Johnson shares curious Knicks-Pacers theory on ?Speak? – Awful Announcing
    05/14/2025 02:53:25
     
  • Indiana Pacers Pass Cleveland Cavs, Move to Conference Finals; New York Knicks Next? – Sports Illustrated
    05/14/2025 02:04:54
     
  • How Knicks can close out Celtics in Game 5 of Eastern Conference semifinals – SNY
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  • Knicks Superfan Ben Stiller Shares Classy Message for Jayson Tatum After Injury – Sports Illustrated
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    • 40 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2025.05.14)”

    With the way things are set up, it’s finals or bust. Beating Boston and losing to Indiana would not be a good look for this team.

    Still can’t believe the shot Jokic hit last night. To lose after that must be quite bitter.

    I am going to make sure we close out Boston before worrying about losing to the Pacers, who looked really good last night.

    Indiana is really good. And the two times we’ve run up against an excellent coach in the playoffs we’ve lost with the better team. (That’s why I think next series, not this one, will be the determining one for Thibs.)

    I hate to say it but I actually think the fuckers are a good bet at +700 to win the title.

    Still can’t believe the shot Jokic hit last night. To lose after that must be quite bitter.

    That was a HORSE shot. Insane.

    The Thunder seem like they are growing with adversity. SGA’s teammates finally came through for him last night (Holmgren had some big buckets, and Williams’ 3 to put the Thunder up 6 was the biggest shot of the game).

    I am irked that they did not present the MVP award in this series. It’s typically done in the second round. I suppose they are trying to avoid a humiliating event like when they gave it to David Robinson and Hakeem proceeded to eviscerate him. But that’s one of the most memorable NBA moments and I really wanted another one.

    At the beginning of the season I never thought our challenge would be keeping up with the Pacers.

    I thought Denver was really unlucky, they shot so poorly down the stretch and OKC made some ridiculous shots too. It’s a shame.

    I think Minnesota has a good chance against OKC. Denver managed to slow down SGA with their personnel, Minny can really make him work.

    The non-Jokic Nuggets shot 32% from the floor and 20% from 3.

    If they can just get poor shooting instead of terrible shooting, they might still win.

    Horrible time for Denver to revert back to “Jokic has a near flawless game but his teammates let him down”, they had a very real chance to set fire to the series.

    I am going to make sure we close out Boston before worrying about losing to the Pacers, who looked really good last night.

    If we don’t close out Boston, with a 3:1 lead and all their injuries, then it’s clearly bust.

    Tonight’s game is so different from the rest of the series. Tatum’s absence changes so much on both sides of the ball. Who will be the primary ballhandler? Does Boston play the two bigs or more Pritchard (and if the latter, who guards KAT)?

    Pritchard has been a really tough cover for the Knicks in this series, and in some ways I fear him more than Brown (given his shooting). I assume OG still guards Brown, but there’s a case to be made to put Hart on Brown, OG on White and Mikal on Pritchard if that’s the lineup.

    The Celtics are quite thin if Hauser is not good to go, so I’d be curious who else they might play.

    It’ll be interesting.

    dogie howser is probable which usually means that he will be on the court tonite

    Please, Thibs, tell me this is not going to be the Payton Pritchard game.

    it would be the second payton prichard game we already had one in game 3 23 points

    Pritchard scored 18 points/36 on .633 TS%. He’s pretty good. I don’t know why people still think of him as a scrub.

    I don’t think Pritchard is a scrub at all. Rather, I think he is the likeliest person to “go off” in a career night and be the story of the game by compensating for Tatum’s missing points.

    I want us to stop that from happening.

    Got it – I didn’t mean you, but there are a lot of people out there in the world who think of Pritchard as “random Celtics white dude who can shoot 3s”, but he’s much more than that.

    I’ll be curious to see if Boston curls up and sucks their collective thumbs in despair or comes out hyper-psyched to win one for the Tatum. If that latter, we’re going to have to show some real resilience, they could have another 60% game from three with their annoying jitterbugs.

    he’s much more than that.

    Totally agree. I would prolly love Pritchard on our team. In green? Not so much 😉

    Funny that I was slowly typing out “annoying jitterbugs” while everyone else discussed how Pritchard is a real ball player. I still stand by my description…

    The Celtics can make up Tatum’s points but they’re going to really feel his absence on defense tonight. If they do the wing on Hart thing then Pritchard has to guard Mikal or OG and I would hope either of them can make him pay. If we can force them to put him on Hart that opens up KAT.

    I expect hot shooting and a good start from Boston but like the Pacers last night (the two series have been mirrors) I think we’ll wear them down and prevail. (And I hope we do because I kinda want the money I laid out for a game 6 ticket back!)

    Not so scared of Pritchard. Without Tatum, and with KP playing on fumes and Horford apparently aging, they’re smallish and we should destroy them down low and on the boards. Unless they have a career night from a bench big.

    This won’t be just the little green men fighting for their little suburb of NYC. This will also be a very young and driven under the gun head coach fighting for his career. Expecting the game to be a hellstorm. Not expecting to win. That team is stacked and and throwing Pritchard into the starting lineup is gonna cause us all sorts of problems. Their sphincters will have released as the weight of expectation is firmly on the Knicks now.

    The Celtics can make up Tatum’s points but they’re going to really feel his absence on defense tonight.

    Defense and rebounding. He’s their best defensive rebounder by a mile. I don’t think Brown can make up the difference.

    On defense, it’ll be imperative for the Knicks not to double team. Give up whatever Brown or White can get one on one.

    Not so scared of Pritchard. Without Tatum, and with KP playing on fumes and Horford apparently aging, they’re smallish and we should destroy them down low and on the boards. Unless they have a career night from a bench big.

    Ruh, roh. Poking the gods.

    the weight of expectation is firmly on the Knicks now.

    Yes. How will our guys perform when they are *supposed to win? And not clawing back from 20 down against the World Champions.

    So which of these 3 teams will have the biggest * if they go on and win the title?

    Knicks- because they played a sorta hobbled Celtics squad and no Tatum after game 4
    Wolves – because they beat the Warriors without Steph
    Pacers – because they beat the Cavs who were missing a ton of guys early in the series

    i do not think that many people think of prichard as a scrub anymore but they probably did up until this season he was sixth man of the year so if that does not mean anythig then one is not paying attention expect boston to stay with us until midway thru the 3rd qtr and then fade and lose

    Well, people talked all last spring about how the Celtics had a relative cakewalk to the title, given injuries faced by their various opponents. But banners hang forever, and they don’t have asterisks on them.

    On defense, it’ll be imperative for the Knicks not to double team. Give up whatever Brown or White can get one on one.

    God help me if we are still giving up too many open 3PAs tonight.

    A lot more would need to happen for any team to be given an *, not just a one round mishap.

    Also, the Knicks did get lucky the first couple games against Boston, but that was also in large part due to a strategic flaw. Don’t let Boston fans off the hook, they chose to shoot that many 3s and lost that gamble.

    Haters will say the West team that wins beat a scrubby team that came out of the east because the good teams got hurt

    but maybe one of those scrubby east teams wins there would be no askerik

    I am very scared that Pritchard will go off, a lot of analysts seem to think Mazulla’s biggest mistake was not playing him more instead of sick Porzingis, and now he’ll be forced to do it.

    But the caveat is that we can turn that into an advantage by relentlessly targeting him on defense, because their lineup finally has a clear weak link defensively (two, if you count how much success Brunson seems to have against Derrick White). So I’m optimistic, yet cautious after 30 years of Knicks watching and I’ll only unclench when we actually reach the ECF.

    again do not forget that we will also have to conend with howser who has not previously played against us in this series

    The Celtics are still formidable–probably a low 50s win team without Tatum–but between the psychological impact of knowing Tatum is gone for good (might as well get to Cancun sooner) and what is now, I think, our decided talent advantage, there’s no reason we can’t close out tonight if we play smart.

    Without Tatum the extent to which helping off of guys like Pritchard and Hauser is necessary should be greatly mitigated. Honestly, there’s no one remaining on the Celtics roster I wouldn’t play straight up. Just stick to their shooters like glue.

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