For a couple of minutes there, there was a smell of beliefs that circulated through Madison Square Garden. Maybe it was Fool’s gold. Or maybe it was something else. The final score – Celtics 119, Knicks 117 (OT) – would suggest the first. Life inside the building when the Knicks finally hit Boston would insinuate the latter.
With some luck, we will discover it very soon.
For now, this is a bitter loss for the Knicks, who twice led by three points in the dying minute of regulation before committing two cardinal sins. In Jayson Tatum’s first fight from behind the arch, to 3, they saved when Tatum made only two out of three, and then Jalsson found Josh Heart for an advantage of 107-104 Knicks with 11.2 seconds.
In the second, not to fail Tatum instead of allowing him to launch the 3 that tied the game with 107 with 2.9 seconds to go after having entered the arch, which they went back, they swing very lucky.
