Fourth. Place.
The New York Knicks completed the impossible dream Sunday afternoon, clinching the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference with a harrowing 96-92 victory over the Boston Celtics. The Knicks will host their first playoff game in eight years next weekend.
As for the game itself, the less said about it, the better. The Celtics were missing their top seven players, and the Knicks still managed to let a 21-point second-half lead slip away thanks to some butt-nasty offensive execution and the absurd shot-making of someone named Tremont Waters. It should be noted that RJ Barrett, who helped build that big lead by scoring 14 of his team-high 22 points in the third quarter, didn’t even get a shot attempt in the fourth.