Who needs an All-Star break? Certain not the New York Knicks, who steamrolled the Hawks in Atlanta Wednesday night, 122-101, for their third consecutive win. The Knicks held a double-digit lead in all four quarters of this game. Yes, the Hawks did get as close as 11 in the third quarter, as the Knicks suddenly forgot how to hit jump shots, but the bully-ball heroics of Jalen Brunson, Julius Randle and — it’s true! — Isaiah Hartenstein kept the Hawks at bay. Once the jumpers started falling again in the fourth quarter, that was all she wrote.
This team is quite good at the moment!