The Knicks needed to stare down their reckoning before winning it all
Even as the Knicks' winning streak reached 13 games and 46 days, the truest believers were always on the lookout for other shoes ready to drop on their heads like anvils from a tall building.
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New York Knicks Mike Vaccaro The Knicks needed to stare down their reckoning before winning it all By Mike Vaccaro Published June 15, 2026, 7:25 p.m. ET Knicks forward Og Anunoby #8, falls to the floor after scoring the game winning basket with a put back as Karl-Anthony Towns #32, watches the ball go through the net. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post The funny part about that stretch of playoffs when the Knicks took a turn as the most unstoppable team of all time — Game 4 against the Hawks through Game 1 against the Spurs, when the average score of a game was Knicks 121, Opponents 98 — was this: When you’d talk to a lot of Knicks fans, they were still skittish as cats. They were giddy with each passing blowout, sure, but they were still wary.
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