76ers 101, Knicks 100 (OT): “This game [was] downright silly”

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images The last time the New York Knicks beat the Philadelphia 76ers was the 2017 season finale — Marshall Plumlee, Chasson Randle, Justin Holiday, Sasha Vuja\u010di\u0107 and Mindaugas Kuzminskas bested Justin Anderson, Richaun Holmes, Alex Poythress, T.J. McConnell and Timothy Luwawu-Cabarrot. The losing streak is now 15 and will endure until at least next season after the Sixers squeaked out a 101-100 overtime win at Madison Square Garden.

This game ran at a playoff intensity, and for good reasons: these two teams could meet in the first round and due to COVID protocol there were only two referees. The NBA went away from the two-ref system in 1988 and this game was…