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Sheesh!
May 1, 2026
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Morbid curiosity is not normally a healthy reason to commit to a form of entertainment, but also you don't necessarily have a say in the matter. Sometimes the morbid part just jumps in front of your face, grabs your eyelids, yanks them down and then snaps them back up like a senior-center window shade. Which brings us to Thursday night's Game 6 of the Knicks-Hawks series, which was not much as a basketball game but sure put the more in morbidity.
New York went to Atlanta facing a team with a puncher's chance of forcing a seventh game and instead won so convincingly that a case can be made that the Knicks actually won the series in five games, because the sixth game had to have been some sort of busted AI hiccup. Not that it started that way, mind you. Even the least convincing computer-generated nonsense begins with a notionally believable premise, but eventually the seams and joints show up and you realize that you've been kinetically bullshitted. That point was Jalen Johnson's midrange jumper with 8:11 left in the first quarter, which gave the upstart Hawks an 11-9 lead. Everything was possible at that moment, and the sellout crowd believed the best was to come. Five minutes later, the game was over—spectacularly, irrevocably, absurdly over. It got colossally worse from there, as things do.
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