Tom Thibodeau finished his last regular season press conference on Sunday reminding us that, like the Knicks players, this is not our first rodeo.
“I know that you are aware of that,” Thibodeau said that your rotations shorten in the postseason. “Being experienced veteran playoff writers, you understand it.”
Real before Thibodeau, there was very little experience covering a series of hometown. The Knicks had spent most of the previous two decades in Purgatory, never once chaining this current type of four -year apparitions in postseason of about five years.
From 2001-23, the Knicks totaled a victory of a series of a game. Only the jets had more.