Only once this season the Knicks gifted fans free basketball, and that didn’t even happen within the walls of the Mecca.
Until Sunday, that was, as they needed five extra minutes of playing time to stiff-arm a ridiculously resilient Bulls squad that wasn’t into messing with the Basketball Gods.
Kudos to Chicago, who was playing for nothing but still put up a fight.
And kudos to New York because it was the lone team across the NBA landscape playing for something that didn’t toy with seeding higher or lower and chose their preferred opponent.