The Atlanta Hawks (32-26) and New York Knicks (32-27) will meet Wednesday evening in what is surprisingly a game that could have home-court implications in the first round of a potential playoff series between these two teams. Obviously, there is still a little ways to go in the regular season, but if it ended today, the Hawks and Knicks would meet in the first round of the Eastern Conference Playoffs as the No. 4 and No. 5 seeds.
Atlanta has won 9 of their last 11, while New York has won seven straight and eight of their last ten.