If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.
Before tonight, through a scheduling quirk courtesy of the In-Season Tournament, the Celtics and Knicks had already faced each four times in this regular season with Boston taking all four. Add in the preseason schedule and Summer League, it’s been seven head-to-heads since July. Outside of their Opening Night thriller, Boston has handled their Atlantic Division rivals for the most part, but that’s before seeing OG Anunoby as a Knick and NY losing Julius Randle for the year.
In Game #5 of their regular season series, the Knicks finally beat the Celtics 118-109 at TD Garden.