No matter the site you check, or where you get your trusted intel from, you’ll find the same answer all across the board: the New York Knicks will beat the Miami Heat and get to the Eastern Conference Finals.
That’s what has been percolating through the last couple of days after both the Knicks and the Heat defeated their first-round foes in Cleveland and Milwaukee and set up their semifinals matchup.
All experts interviewed by The Athletic picked the Knicks in six
In their annual, series-to-series tradition, The Athletic ($) anonymously interviewed a handful of experts—a scout, a coach, and a team executive—to get their opinion on the strongest team entering the second round between New York and Miami.