Each week during the 2022-23 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
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The New York Knicks bullied the defending Eastern Conference champion and first-place Boston Celtics in TD Garden on Thursday in a victory that would've made Charles Oakley proud, if the franchise had not alienated the embodiment of its 1990s oeuvre.