A raucous Madison Square Garden crowd couldn’t push the hot-starting New York Knicks over the finish line Sunday in a 108-101 loss to the Miami Heat in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals the kind of game that could be looked back upon a week from now as a huge missed opportunity.
In Game 5 of their first-round series on Wednesday night in Cleveland, the New York Knicks can end one NBA playoffs drought and begin focusing on the next.