This New York Knicks' season was not supposed to go this way. When you trade away a total of six first-rounders for the combination of Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns after finishing second in the Eastern Conference in the year prior, your sights are set on a Larry O’Brien trophy. Well, at least they were set on that.

An NBA playoff series is a fundamentally unstable entity. We enter each one with expectations and then Game 1 blows all of them up. Coaches adjust on the fly. By the time Game 2 a

The Detroit Pistons are set to play their first home playoff game since 2019, as they get back to Little Caesars Arena for Game 3 of their first-round series with the New York Knicks.