At the Garden, live, in person, there was no mystery to it: right there, on the enormous scoreboard, were the hard truths facing the Knicks: Atlanta 107, New York 106, 5.6 seconds left. And, tellingly, under \u201ctimeouts\u201d for the Knicks: 0.<\/p>\n
On the NBC broadcast on TV, they incorrectly showed the Knicks with one timeout left<\/a>. On the Knicks\u2019 postgame show, Wally Szczerbiak (understandably) would soon repeat that false fact, since he\u2019d been watching the NBC telecast along with everyone else.<\/p>\n This became a critical issue when CJ McCollum, who hadn\u2019t missed much of anything<\/a> down the stretch of Game 2, somehow missed two free throws. Josh Hart grabbed a rebound. At the Garden, there was little surprise that he soon pushed the ball up court, frantically hoping to start the process of pulling a rabbit out of the hat for the Knicks, ultimately finding Mikal Bridges who launched a clear-look 12-foot fadeaway that clanked off the rim at the final buzzer<\/a>. There was an arena-wide sigh, then silence. Disappointment with a shrug: they knew there was no timeout to take.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, the anger was palpable. Social media was immediately filled with the same perturbing question: why not call timeout there, move the ball to halfcourt, reset, set up a shot that almost surely would\u2019ve been better than a rushed fadeaway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Garden, live, in person, there was no mystery to it: right there, on the enormous scoreboard,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,677,3357,6,11,56381,191,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-715260","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-mike-brown","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-playoffs","16":"tag-nba-playoffs-2026","17":"tag-new-york-knicks","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-columnists","20":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116443534010397050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715260","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=715260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}