The early Mike Brown returns are clear — these Knicks are playing a different way

The hope for writing a game column is picking one player, one moment or one subject and diving into it.

Dedicate 650 words to whatever is chosen.

Except with Mike Brown’s Knicks, apparently that’s no easy task. There’s been so much variety in his two opening games, so much parity in the scoring, it would be a disservice to single out anything.

So here we go again, running down the boxscore to confirm what was witnessed in Friday’s 105–95 relative breeze at MSG , a spread-the-love victory over the Celtics with a surprisingly stout Knicks defense.