New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson #11 reacts after hitting a three-point shot against the Utah Jazz. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post

It’s funny how these things happen, and funnier how quickly they can change. But in the moment these sentences are written — late in the afternoon of Dec. 9, 2025, maybe three hours before the Knicks and Raptors tip it off in the quarterfinals of the NBA Cup at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena — there seems to be one clear truth about New York sports:

The Knicks are the oasis in the sporting city.

They are the patch of calm where everywhere else storm clouds are either raging or gathering momentum. This can all change on a dime, of course — or with the snap of an ankle, or the crackle of a knee, or even if things go particularly poorly beginning with an

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