The first one’s in the books.
The Knicks finally started the 2020-21 regular season tonight, about nine-and-a-half months after their last regular season game. Unfortunately, things didn’t get to be quite as rosy in this game as they were in the preseason.
That’s because the Knicks ran into an actual team to start the season, not the weird G League roster monstrosity that Cleveland threw out in the two feel-good Knicks games to end the preseason.
Still, though, the Knicks held up pretty well throughout the first half, which was made even more impressive by the fact that Mitchell Robinson (two) and Nerlens Noel (three) combined for five fouls in the first quarter thanks to, in part, Domantas Sabonis’ crafty nature, and yet also largely due to Domantas Sabonis getting a Michael Jordan whistle inside.