Danette (Paul Pabst)

And I watched far more than I thought I was going to.

And I thought at one point, I think they were up 61 points.

And I thought, gosh, how about we get up to 75?

Can you beat them by 100?

Atlanta wanted to play the Knicks.

Atlanta lost in a game against Miami at the end of the year.

So they didn't face the Cleveland Cavaliers.

So you wanted to face the Knicks.

And, of course, we thought maybe the Hawks can pull off a surprise here.

C.J.

McCollum, he's the new villain.

He's the new Trey Young.

And then all of a sudden, Hawks acted like the Hawks, and the Knicks acted like the Knicks.

That was one of those games where it was one for the ages, as they like to say.

And for the New York Knicks, everything they did, they did right.

Atlanta, everything they did, they did wrong.

The Knicks shot 36% from three-point range, out-rebounded Atlanta by 11, forced 16 steals, 35 fast-break points to Atlanta's eight, outscored Atlanta by 28 points in the paint.

Their largest lead was 61.

I could... Oh!

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