{"id":713477,"date":"2026-04-18T21:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/713477\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:39:16","slug":"playoff-game-thread-knicks-vs-hawks-game-1-april-18-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/713477\/","title":{"rendered":"Playoff Game Thread: Knicks vs. Hawks, Game 1, April 18, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New York Knicks enter the playoffs off a strong season that saw them finish as a top-five offense and top-ten defense. Now, with a championship in their sights, our heroes open their first-round series against a retooled Atlanta Hawks team that has benefited from breakout seasons by Jalen Johnson and Nickeil Alexander-Walker, veteran scoring from CJ McCollum, and a balanced, defensive-minded rotation. While Atlanta brings pace, shooting, and opportunism, New York\u2019s edge lies in its physicality, rebounding, and late-game shot creation\u2014especially in the hands of Captain Clutch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tip-off is 6:00 pm EST on Amazon Prime Video. This is your game thread. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peachtreehoops.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peachtree Hoops<\/a>. Please don\u2019t post large photos, GIFs, or links to illegal streams in the thread. Be cool and enjoy the ride. And go Knicks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks enter the playoffs off a strong season that saw them finish as a top-five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,677,6,63980],"class_list":{"0":"post-713477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-atlantahawks","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-hawks","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-new-york-knicks-discussion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116427880093337263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713477","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=713477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}