INDIANAPOLIS – Around 10 pm on Sunday, some of you were probably putting Karl-Anthony Towns in the trade machine. Maybe it was for Giannis Antetokounmpo. Maybe Kevin Durant.
Other Knick fans were cursing Tom Thibodeau’s coaching or Jalen Brunson’s turnovers.
Things looked bleak at the time.
The Knicks were 12 minutes away from a 3-0 deficit in the Eastern Conference Finals and probably a few days away from the start of their offseason.
And then, improbably, Towns saved the Knicks’ season.
Towns’ 20 points in the first seven minutes of the fourth quarter gave the Knicks life in a game where they looked stuck in the mud.