Next!<\/p>\n
Sure, the 76ers also dropped their first-round series opener to Boston in a lopsided rout.<\/p>\n
But the Celtics weren\u2019t nearly the well-oiled machine these Knicks seem to be. They made another playoff team crumble, this time in a 137-98 Game 1 laugher over the Sixers<\/a> in front of every New York celebrity smart enough to avoid the Met Gala<\/a>.<\/p>\n And who exactly are these Knicks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next! Sure, the 76ers also dropped their first-round series opener to Boston in a lopsided rout. But the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,4517,288,304,6,11,56381,1136,191,3810,3806,207,3823,66,196],"class_list":["post-726286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-knicks","tag-basketball","tag-beyond-the-back-page","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-knicks","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-nba-playoffs-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkknicks","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116521874438185871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726286","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=726286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}