As the Knicks took the floor at Golden State Thursday night it was clear these were not the champion squads from just a few years ago that they were facing. But maybe more important, these are not the same Knicks that were seen in recent years.
If Golden State didn’t have the championship pedigree this time with Klay Thompson sidelined for the entire season and particularly on this night when they lost Draymond Green to a pair of technical fouls, the Knicks were as advertised as they started a four-game West Coast road trip with an impressive 119-104 victory.