INDIANAPOLIS — These are bitter ironies that will wrestle and grapple each other across the next few hours, right up to 3:30 Sunday afternoon, Game 7, Madison Square Garden, the first time the Knicks will play one of these in 29 years.
There is the image of Josh Hart — cast-iron iron horse, seemingly bulletproof — wincing in discomfort, massaging his abdomen, finally trundling to the locker room early in the fourth quarter. His midsection was heavily wrapped, his face a combo of ferocity cut by a few dollops of fear, too.
“Just add it to the list, I guess,” Jalen Brunson said.
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