{"id":42587,"date":"2025-05-19T06:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/42587\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T06:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:47:16","slug":"knicks-fan-favorite-has-3-words-after-series-win-over-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/42587\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks Fan Favorite Has 3 Words After Series Win Over Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a rocky Game 5, the New York Knicks decimated the Boston Celtics in Game 6 to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks benefited from Celtics forward Jayson Tatum&#8217;s absence, viciously attacking the boards. The Celtics missed Tatum the most there.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>According to Masslive.com, the Knicks rebounded 45% of their misses, and the second-chance points really set the two teams apart.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"May 16, 2025; New York, New York, USA; New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns (32) reacts during the second quarter of game six in the second round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs against the Boston Celtics at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-Imagn Images\u00a9 Brad Penner-Imagn Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1747637236_936_58b31371fb4230fe5cec7564d54267e0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>May 16, 2025; New York, New York, USA; New York Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns (32) reacts during the second quarter of game six in the second round of the 2025 NBA Playoffs against the Boston Celtics at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-Imagn Images\u00a9 Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Knicks fan favorite has 3 words after win over Celtics<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for them in the Eastern Conference Finals is the Indiana Pacers. The Knicks-Pacers rivalry is quite a storied one.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Ewing and Reggie Miller had many battles as part of this rivalry, with countless big-time moments.<\/p>\n<p>Following their win over Boston, former fan favorite Ron Baker sent a three-word message.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Knicks in 6&#8221; wrote Baker on X.com<\/p>\n<p>Ron Baker went undrafted in the 2016 NBA Draft, but was picked up by the Knicks for the summer league and later signed a contract.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Baker appeared in 92 games for the Knicks before being traded to the Washington Wizards in the 2018-19 season. He started 13 games in his rookie year.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to becoming a Knicks fan-favorite, he helped Fred VanVleet lead the Wichita State Shockers to an appearance in the Midwest Regional Semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks will have their hands full with a Pacers team that made light work of the admittedly injured No. 1-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p>But if the Knicks can keep forcing turnovers and keep attacking the boards at the same rate, a trip to the NBA Finals isn&#8217;t out of the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a rocky Game 5, the New York Knicks decimated the Boston Celtics in Game 6 to advance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,75,193,2955,866,126,77,563,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806,1279,11906,468,11907],"class_list":{"0":"post-42587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","11":"tag-eastern-conference-finals","12":"tag-fred-vanvleet","13":"tag-indiana-pacers","14":"tag-jayson-tatum","15":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","16":"tag-knicks","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-knicks","20":"tag-newyork","21":"tag-newyorkknicks","22":"tag-reggie-miller","23":"tag-ron-baker","24":"tag-washington-wizards","25":"tag-wichita-state-shockers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114533161181290082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42587","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=42587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}