Knicks-Heat, 1 o’clock, in the Garden. Yeah. Knicks fans are ready for this. New York City is ready for this.
In some ways, this is even more of a scintillating prospect for the Knicks, who have never had home-court advantage in the five times they’ve faced the Heat in the playoffs . The Knicks are the betting favorites to win this series. And they won three out of the four times these teams played this year.
Jimmy Butler, looking to keep the ball away from Julius Randle and Josh Hart during a game earlier this season, will be the focus of attention for the Knicks and their fans this series., and if you watched Games 4 and 5 of the Heat’s still-hard-to-fathom takedown of the top-seeded Bucks, you saw a player residing on a level so rarefied and so elite that it was almost impossible to believe what you were watching.Butler dropped 56 points in Game 4.
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