This year’s playoff run will go down as one of the most memorable ones in franchise history for a myriad of reasons. Their first-round matchup against a feisty up-and-coming Pistons team was a fun and close one that saw multiple games come down to the last possession and was highlighted by Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns exchanging clutch shots. The back-and-forth series was outdone by the very next series, which started with a pair of 20-point comebacks and ended with an emphatic series-clinching blowout at home to advance to conference finals for the first time in 25 years.
But the overall bittersweetness of the season dawned on fans as the Knicks bowed out rather unceremoniously in a disappointing six-game loss to the hated Pacers.