This primarily was like “Weekend at Bernie’s” for the Knicks, who appeared comically useless for almost all of their two newest losses to the NBA’s elite.
Sure, they slashed a gaping 27-point gap to 4 within the third quarter Sunday afternoon in Boston, solely to permit the Celtics to attain the following 10 factors en path to a 118-105 victory at TD Backyard.
One other alternative for the Knicks to show they belong in the identical contending conversations with the defending league champs fell harmlessly to the parquet ground. The back-to-back decisive street defeats in Cleveland (Friday) and in Beantown dropped Tom Thibodeau’s workforce to 0-7 this season in opposition to the three groups that started the day with a greater total file, additionally together with two losses to the West-leading Thunder.
Sunday’s second-half comeback bid however, these seven defeats have come by a mean margin of 20.1 factors.
