{"id":49653,"date":"2025-05-22T12:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/49653\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:17:11","slug":"what-made-knicks-game-1-choke-vs-pacers-so-hard-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/49653\/","title":{"rendered":"What made Knicks&#8217; Game 1 choke vs. Pacers so hard to believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the noise we\u2019ve missed for too long at Madison Square Garden in springtime.<\/p>\n<p>For those of a certain age, it\u2019s been too damned long \u2014 25 years, to be exact, since the Knicks had reached an Eastern Conference finals before Wednesday\u2019s Game 1 against the Pacers tipped off shortly after 8 p.m. in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Garden was buzzing. It seemed like there were more A-list celebrities crammed around courtside than you\u2019d find at a hot Grammys afterparty in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Deep into springtime, when things are going right around these parts, the Garden produces beautiful sounds. Ear-splitting, hair-raising sounds. Sounds that have thankfully returned this spring with the two riveting playoff series victories over the Pistons and Celtics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the noise we\u2019ve missed for too long at Madison Square Garden in springtime. For those of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,4517,126,304,6,11,197,1136,191,3810,3806,3823,66,196,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-49653","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-beyond-the-back-page","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-playoffs","14":"tag-nba-playoffs-2025","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkknicks","19":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-plus","22":"tag-tyrese-haliburton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114551445623953792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49653","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=49653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}