{"id":63863,"date":"2025-05-29T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/63863\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T13:33:09","slug":"knicks-are-closer-to-2025-nba-playoffs-comeback-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/63863\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks are closer to 2025 NBA playoffs comeback than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MLBNetwork\/videos\/game-4-of-the-2004-alcs\/1862466153932818\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">paraphrase Kevin Millar<\/a>: Don\u2019t let them win Game 5.<\/p>\n<p>The thing about these Eastern Conference finals, about <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/28\/sports\/how-knicks-can-save-season-to-beat-pacers-and-reach-nba-finals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this 3-1 deficit the Knicks are facing<\/a> heading back home for Thursday\u2019s do-or-die Game 5 against the Pacers, is that it feels a lot less like the Pacers are running the Knicks off the floor and a lot more like the Knicks <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/28\/sports\/magic-wont-get-the-knicks-out-of-this-hole-heres-what-can\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are leaving something on the table<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks\u2019 nine-point loss in Game 4 on Tuesday was the most lopsided game of the series, and as well as the Pacers played \u2014 Tyrese Haliburton putting up <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/27\/sports\/pacers-tyrese-haliburton-torches-knicks-with-dad-back-in-building\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 32-point triple-double<\/a>, Aaron Nesmith <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/29\/sports\/aaron-nesmith-battling-through-sprained-ankle-for-pacers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">coming off injury and shooting well<\/a>, Pascal Siakam <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/28\/sports\/pascal-siakam-keeps-on-getting-best-of-friend-og-anunoby-knicks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dropping 30<\/a>, Bennedict Mathurin putting in 20 off the bench \u2014 the overwhelming feeling coming out of it was that the Knicks <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/28\/sports\/the-knicks-couldnt-keep-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had put up a stinker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe there\u2019s some bias there (this is a New York paper after all), and this isn\u2019t meant to diminish what\u2019s been an excellent series from Indiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To paraphrase Kevin Millar: Don\u2019t let them win Game 5. The thing about these Eastern Conference finals, about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,4517,126,288,563,1260,6,11,197,191,741,3823,66,196,1416,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-63863","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-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-jalen-brunson","12":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","13":"tag-mikal-bridges","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-playoffs","16":"tag-nba-playoffs-2025","17":"tag-new-york-knicks","18":"tag-og-anunoby","19":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-sports-plus","22":"tag-tom-thibodeau","23":"tag-tyrese-haliburton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114591381064037411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63863","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=63863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}