If anything, the season’s first two games had gone too well. Too easy. Too breezy. The Knicks took care of the Cavaliers and the Celtics, their two chief tormentors a year ago, and they won going away.
The Cavs were missing guys. The Celtics were missing guys. The Knicks were missing guys. Nobody was looking to take anything remotely definitive away from those games, but the Knicks did answer the bell in both of them, they did win both games easily at the end in front of 100 percent capacity.
They weren’t going to go 82-0.
They didn’t even make it to 3-0. The Heat blew open the game during the seven minutes Jalen Brunson rested in the third and fourth quarters, then managed to hold off a spirited Knicks rally before finishing off a 115-107 win in front of their own delighted masses at their home opener at Miami’s Kaseya Center.
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