NEW YORK — Back when the New York Knicks would annually march on in the playoffs, they'd almost always run into the Indiana Pacers.
“I guess whenever you have the original teams from back then, there’s always going to be some type of history," Brunson said."But you have two good teams who play very, I don’t want to say different, but like, they play their own style of basketball. And so it’s going to be a grind of who’s going to go out there, who’s going to want it more who’s going to try to go get it.”
The league's No. 4 scorer in the regular season tops all players in the postseason with 35.5 per game. Both were All-Stars, with Haliburton the Eastern Conference starter in his home arena en route to leading the league with 10.9 assists per game.Pascal Siakam and OG Anunoby were starters in Toronto to begin the season before the forwards were traded, with Anunoby going to the Knicks in December and Siakam to Indiana in January.