Knicks and Pacers ready to renew rivalry with the winner going to the NBA Finals

The teams go at it again starting Wednesday night in Game 1 of the Knicks’ first trip to the Eastern Conference finals in 25 years.

GAME ONE: The Knicks and Pacers go at it again starting Wednesday night in Game 1 of the Knicks’ first trip to the Eastern Conference finals in 25 years. Pic: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.

Jalen Brunson held a steel chair. Tyrese Haliburton had brass knuckles.

As the star point guards glared at each other in a WWE wrestling ring last summer in Madison Square Garden, it seemed a fitting next step in the rivalry between the Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks. It’s already featured headbutts and chokes, so why not weapons?