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4 days ago | 
postingandtoasting.com | Kento Kato
David Butler II-Imagn Images Let’s get this out of the way because it’s very clear. Neither, and I repeat, NEITHER team has played even close to their best basketball this series. The Celtics look nothing like the team that finished the season as one of the two or three hottest teams in the league and look even less like the team that took home the Larry O’Brien trophy less than 12 months ago.
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4 days ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Kento Kato
Let’s get this out of the way because it’s very clear. Neither, and I repeat, NEITHER team has played even close to their best basketball this series. The Celtics look nothing like the team that finished the season as one of the two or three hottest teams in the league and look even less like the team that took home the Larry O’Brien trophy less than 12 months ago.
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5 days ago | 
postingandtoasting.com | Kento Kato
Photo by David L. Nemec/NBAE via Getty Images When I looked ahead to the Knicks’ second-round matchup against the Celtics, I could not have seen any of this coming. I did think that the Knicks could surprise people by keeping the games closer than their regular season record against the Celtics would’ve suggested. But I admittedly had the Celtics ultimately winning in a hard-fought five-game series.
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1 week ago | 
postingandtoasting.com | Kento Kato
Photo by Steven Ryan/Getty Images Thursday night’s game six win over the Pistons was an instant classic. It literally had everything from a hot start to a collapse many fans saw coming, to a surprisingly good third quarter, to another collapse, to a series-clinching three from none other than Jalen Brunson, who saw and heard, his name, and reputation get dragged through the mud over the last couple of weeks.
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2 weeks ago | 
postingandtoasting.com | Kento Kato
The New York Knicks come into tonight with a chance to not only end the Detroit Pistons’ season but also close out a playoff series at home for the first time since June 11th, 1999. But they always say that the elimination game is the hardest. It’s an overused quote, but it’s overused because it’s almost always true.
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3 weeks ago | 
postingandtoasting.com | Kento Kato
Photo by Chris Schwegler/NBAE via Getty Images For many reasons, it has felt like the players, and the fans were ready to get the regular season over with. The last couple of weeks of the regular season saw the players lose a bit of focus, blow leads, and continue their losing ways against the top two teams in the Eastern Conference. And the fans?
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1 month ago | 
postingandtoasting.com | Kento Kato
Photo by Juan Ocampo/NBAE via Getty Images We all tuned into the Knicks’ afternoon matinee against the Nets expecting a meaningless contest between a team that has clinched the playoffs, and a team that has been eliminated for quite some time now. And while the game ultimately ended up being meaningless for the most part, Cameron Payne, Precious Achiuwa, and Tom Thibodeau didn’t really get the memo.
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1 month ago | 
postingandtoasting.com | Kento Kato
Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images Despite Tuesday night’s thrilling nail-biter not going the Knicks’ way, there was a certain high fans experienced from the contest. It was a potential playoff matchup filled with stars that went to overtime, and the Knicks, maybe more than any other game thus far this season, gave fans hope that while beating the Celtics may not be likely, it was at least possible.
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1 month ago | 
postingandtoasting.com | Kento Kato
Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images It’s been just a week since the Knicks lost to the Cavaliers and extended their winless losing streak to the Thunder, Cavaliers, and Celtics to eight. Tonight, they’ll get their ninth, and penultimate opportunity to win their first game against the top three this season. But this game, even if it ends in a Knicks win, may come with a bit of an asterisk as the Celtics could very well be without multiple key players.
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1 month ago | 
postingandtoasting.com | Kento Kato
Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images When the Knicks traded backup big Jericho Sims to the Bucks for veteran point guard Delon Wright, the majority of the fanbase was split into two camps. One camp wondered why they’d trade away an imperfect, yet clearly useful young center (a position lacking depth), for an older point guard (a position of strength) that was unlikely to get any real minutes.
