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Colin Sheridan: Knicks are finally good and basketball is the winner

Whisper it: the New York Knicks are good. Very good.

Mon, 19 May, 2025 - 07:55

Colin Sheridan is a writer and columnist. A former officer in the Irish Defence Forces he has extensive deployment experience as a peacekeeper with the United Nations, having lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia, West Africa, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine.

Whisper it: the New York Knicks are good. Very good. Going to the Western Conference Finals good. Likely-to-lose-in-six-to-the-Indiana-Pacers good. It's been 25 years since the Madison Square Garden rocked like this, and such is the storied franchise's appetite for apocalyptic disaster, it might be 25 more.

The courtside seats boast more stars than the Milky Way. The team's talisman Jalen Brunson is a misfit-turned-MVP. Their head coach Tom Thibodeau is a character. Their fans are gone spare ape. If you're in the Big Apple, this is real catch them if you can territory.

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