Knicks down to final chance after Pacers’ Game 6 rout
NY Post
INDIANAPOLIS — It’s all on Game 7.
With a chance to clinch the franchise’s first conference final in 24 years, the Knicks laid an egg in Friday night’s 116-103 Game 6 defeat, getting little from their star point guard until it was too late and the Pacers were well on their way to extending their season.
It set up the do-or-die Game 7 on Sunday afternoon at MSG, the biggest game for the Knicks since Patrick Ewing wore their uniform.
And they’re going to need much better from Jalen Brunson.
“They adjusted. They tried to make things difficult. And I have to adjust as well,” Brunson said. “They showed me different looks and I have to do a better job of reading it. I just can’t be what I was for the first 40 minutes of the game.”
The All-Star shot just 11-for-26 after one of the worst first halves of his Knicks career, unable to crack Indiana’s relentless pressure before pouring on late points and finishing with 31.
Every game the Rangers have played recently has come with seismic implications.
Steve Cohen is fast approaching a billion-dollar outlay this offseason, and the Mets’ work isn’t done.
Tank Dell’s knee injury is bad enough that it could put his status in doubt for the start of the 2025 season.
The Jets want to get the fourth-most-targeted receiver in the NFL more involved in their offense.
ATLANTA — The Giants are a franchise bleeding despair right now.
Folks have been clamoring for Peter Laviolette to meaningfully reduce Mika Zibanejad’s minutes and that is what the Rangers head coach has done over the last week.
The Phillies are fortifying their already strong rotation.
The Knicks are saying hello again to Landry Shamet.
Mike LaFleur wore a postgame smile Sunday that was seldom seen when he called MetLife Stadium his full-time home.
NEW ORLEANS — The Pelicans’ ballboy was caught up in an act of trickery that resulted in a technical foul.
Saturday wasn’t Tom Brady’s finest hour in the booth.