The game started with a “F*ck Trae Young” chant. It ended with a Young game-winner.
Young’s floater with less than a second left silenced a stunned 15,000 Madison Square Garden crowd as the Hawks stole Game One from the New York Knicks, 107-105, on Sunday night.
Julius Randle missed a tough fadeaway jumper at the buzzer that dimmed the Knicks’ return to the NBA playoffs for the first time in eight years.
If Randle’s playoff debut was a dud — 15 points on 6-of-24 shooting — Young was the exact opposite.
Young was spectacular, scoring six clutch points in the final two minutes to bring Atlanta home.