Mitchell Robinson and Kevin Knox are the only active Knicks to have participated in a win over the Boston Celtics. The last time New York bested their archrival was November 21, 2018, a.k.a. The Trey Burke Game. Today was the teams’ first meeting in over a year. The way this one went, the Celtics might not want to see the Knicks again until 2022. This was a rare wire-to-wire whupping.
Both teams came into the game on five-game streaks, the Celtics winning that many in a row and the Knicks very much not. Both were shorthanded, though the absence of Jayson Tatum was a bigger deal for Boston than Alec Burks or Frank Ntilikina were for New York.