The New York Knicks couldn’t rest after clinching a playoff berth. No, that devastating loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday bumped them down to the No. 6 seed.
As a result, Saturday’s tilt with the Charlotte Hornets mattered all the more. New York took the sting out of Charlotte in beating them 109-97 on April 20, but this was a different game. LaMelo Ball was back on the court for the Hornets, and his team was playing for play-in game seeding.
Did the New York Knicks tame the Hornets, or did they let Charlotte’s sting consume them a la Nicolas Cage in The Wicker Man?