DETROIT — With roughly 90 seconds remaining in a type of season-defining thrillers, Karl-Anthony Cities dribbled from the highest of the important thing to the baseline. He was a good way from the basket and outdoors the paint, usually no-man’s-land for giant males.
Cities, let’s face it, is neither the quickest nor most sleek with the ball. So him dribbling close to a nook whereas hounded by a defender is suboptimal, a recipe for a turnover or failed try to attract a foul.
Nevertheless it was out of that place Saturday when Cities picked up his dribble, generated momentum with a shake and unleashed a swishing fadeaway over Jalen Duren that minimize Detroit’s deficit to 2. The Knicks, scratching again from a double-digit fourth-quarter deficit, have been supplied life from a seemingly dire back-to-the-basket possession.
You’d suppose Patrick Ewing, circa 1995, was sporting No. 32 in Little Caesars Enviornment.
