Several major statement opportunities linger on the New York Knicks' 2024-25 schedule.
The path for the Knicks' most legitimately hopeful season in recent memory has been laid out, as most of the NBA's 2024-25 regular season schedule was released on Thursday. While two matchups have yet to be determined thanks to currently unestablished NBA Cup, the Knicks and their NBA brethren know where they're going come fall, winter, and spring.
But the matchup with the reigning champion Celtics is far more intriguing: even though Boston healthily handled the Knicks in four get-togethers, the fifth, a 118-109 New York victory on Apr. 11, lingers as an interesting outlier thanks to the prescience of OG Anunoby and the conflicted nature of a Celtics team playing their starters despite having the top seed in the East completely wrapped up.
This time around, the Knicks have a chance to make a statement in their NBA Cup opener, facing the Philadelphia 76ers group that they disposed of in the opening round of "real" tournament. The Sixers, still holding a steadfast loyalty to "the process," went out and reloaded upon their defeat, picking up Paul George as the headlining move of an Atlantic Division arms race.
Orlando is in an intriguing, if not somewhat depressing, spot: there's a solid young core in place headlined by Paolo Banchero but, barring a major free agency signing they probably can't afford, no one in their right mind is putting the Magic in the East's NBA Finals spot. All the while, they hang with some of the conference's finest: they took an In-Season Tournament game from Boston last year and defeated the Knicks in three of their four meetings.
The Knicks' faceoff with Isaiah Hartenstein won't set ratings records, but there's no denying that the Oklahoma City Thunder's newly-minted $87 million man played a major role in the last two years that helped shift the franchise's fortunes. Hartenstein wound up chasing Western Conference money after he was one of several metropolitan depth stars that rose to the occasion in the wake of the aforementioned injuries, namely the ankle woes of Mitchell Robinson.
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