Cleveland is ready.
For the first time since LeBron James took the city on its first championship climb in nearly 50 years, it has a basketball team around which it can rally. If the Bucks, Celtics and 76ers are the consensus Big 3 in the East, the Cavs are the clear pick as Best of the Rest, with a damn good shot chance to make one of them sweat.
“You’re ready to get going,” Jalen Brunson said earlier this week. “Definitely. Watching some of these teams play [in the play-in games], how intense it’s been, you’re itching to get out there and play.” The NBA season can seem like an endless maze to nowhere, right up until the playoffs open a new door and present a fresh series of opportunities.
But the Knicks have proven they can be pains in the posterior as well. They collected an awful lot of wins this year against elite teams. It gives you belief, if you are a Knicks fan, that they really can walk into Cleveland on Saturday or Tuesday and win the necessary road game that will get the attention of everyone — Mitchell, Garland, Roland St. James.
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