The only thing more satisfying than seeing and hearing a Madison Square Garden crowd losing its collective mind was a similarly powerful hush following a stunning moment.
Atlanta’s Trae Young authored the first page in his playoff career in the most dramatic way possible — a winner with less than a second left to give the Hawks a 107-105 Game 1 win over the Knicks and some payback to the fans who chanted “F*** Trae Young.”
Spike Lee was back on the sideline and 15,000 thirsty souls were back in their basketball sanctuary, and it was Young’s duty to end the revival, to send them scurrying back to 33rd Street with a familiar feeling delivered by Michael Jordan and Reggie Miller in playoffs past.