Jalen Brunson’s latest clutch-time performance Wednesday night bailed the Knicks out of what would have been one of their ugliest losses of the season.
With Karl-Anthony Towns unable to play Wednesday night, rookie center Ariel Hukporti made the first start of his NBA career. But he couldn’t make it through the entire game.
The Knicks' winless record against the top three teams in the NBA felt like a first-world problem when compared to the skidding team they ousted in the first round of the playoffs last spring.
Is it realistic to expect that gap to be closed this season for a Knicks squad with aspirations of advancing deeper into the playoffs following two straight second-round eliminations?
Another opportunity for the Knicks to prove they belong in the same contending conversations with the defending league champs fell harmlessly to the parquet floor.
Meola represented the USMNT at the World Cup in 1990, 1994 and 2002 -- the first two as the starting goalie and the latter as a backup -- posting 35 clean sheets over 101 career caps.
The Yankees moved on from Anthony Rizzo over the winter, but the former All-Star first baseman still is looking for work as spring-training games have commenced.
Even with Josh Hart added to the street-clothes crew with a knee injury, they kicked off their final stretch of 28 regular-season games by pulling out a gritty, 113-111, overtime decision.