Tiki Barber

The Knicks are a damn good basketball team.

They need to play their best basketball at the right time of year.

They need a little bit of luck, and that luck involves health.

I mean, look around the league.

Victor Wambanyama's banged up.

He should be fine for the postseason, but you never know the injuries that pop up in April and May.

Obviously, the devastating news about Joel Embiid, which is not a surprise.

The guy's a walking playoff injury.

He's never had a year in which he has participated in the postseason without missing a game due to injury.

So, yeah, there's a little bit of luck.

There's a little bit of can they stay healthy.

But when you look at this basketball team, I think you should feel very similar to the way you felt back in October, which is they're a championship contender.

And I know that the recency bias has been, well, they've struggled against good teams.

And that's true.

Over the last month, we can include last night as a good victory.

I know Jalen Brown didn't play, but nevertheless... You can't control that he didn't play.

You can't control that.

And the Celtics are still a good team without him.

I mean, you couldn't stop Baylor Scheinemann last night.

Scheinemann.