{"id":18717,"date":"2025-05-08T14:19:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/18717\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T14:19:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:19:19","slug":"the-knicks-arent-just-beating-celtics-theyre-in-their-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/18717\/","title":{"rendered":"The Knicks aren&#8217;t just beating Celtics, they&#8217;re in their heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s just save everyone in two cities some time on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Skip the first half of Game 3 of the NBA\u2019s Eastern Conference semifinals, spot the Celtics a 20-point lead, put 16 minutes on the clock and see how long it takes the Knicks to stage an epic comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Yogi Berra once said, \u201cBaseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, after a second straight 20-point road rally to victory by the Knicks, this second-round playoff series now is 100 percent mental, and the Celtics\u2019 physical advantage \u2014 superior talent \u2014 is meaningless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s just save everyone in two cities some time on Saturday afternoon. Skip the first half of Game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,4517,75,6,11,197,191,3823,66,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-18717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-beyond-the-back-page","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-playoffs","13":"tag-nba-playoffs-2025","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114472653297765942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}