Lawdy, finally, the 76ers and New York Knicks are starting to hate each other. Look at what we’ve been missing.
NEW YORK — The ending — the chaos and collisions and the stones that it took Donte DiVincenzo to take that second three-point shot and make it — is what everyone will remember, but really, it’s only the beginning.
Yes, it was like that all night. One minute, Embiid tumbles to the court like a long lounge chair, mechanically, in sections. The next minute, he’s flashing better footwork than Rudolf Nureyev, catching a pass on the right elbow, pirouetting away from a defender, and swishing a 14-foot fadeaway. One minute, Madison Square Garden is going bonkers for an old John Starks highlight from the early 1990s, when the Knicks practiced Pat Riley’s brutal brand of kill-or-be-killed basketball.
He’s also an example of the disparate ways that each team is trying to win this series. The Knicks are getting more meaningful contributions from more players on their roster. Brunson missed 39 of his first 55 attempts from the field through Games 1 and 2, but Hart, DiVincenzo, Bojan Bogdanovic, Miles McBride, and Isaiah Hartenstein have more than made up for Brunson’s bad shooting. New York has a measure of balance that the Sixers, for all the talk of their deeper bench, right now don’t.
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