This is one of those games you just can’t call.

Stylistically, the Orlando Magic have been a thorn in the Knicks’ side — a bruising, physical team built to disrupt rhythm and drag opponents into the mud. But both teams are battered, both are missing real weapons, and while Orlando took the first two meetings of the season, the Knicks enter Saturday’s NBA Cup semifinal having won eight of their last nine, including last Sunday’s win over the Magic at Madison Square Garden.

And that’s what makes the semifinal in Las Vegas compelling: two teams that pushed their chips to the center of the table, two franchises trying to raise a championship banner now fighting for a different one to hang in the rafters.

“I don’t feel it’s on the rivalry level yet,” head coach Mike Brown said after Thursda

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