About 10 months after his Broadway Bow, Trae Young has a chance to bury the Knicks again.
It’s not the same magnitude of the playoffs, but a defeat to the Hawks on Tuesday sends the Knicks into a hole so deep the play-in tournament can be tossed into the Hudson River. As it stands, the Knicks (30-41) are five games behind the Hawks (35-36) for the final play-in spot with 11 to play.
A defeat Tuesday would make it a six-game deficit with 10 games remaining, while also clinching the Knicks a losing record after last season’s surge to the fourth seed. (The Knicks could also mathematically overtake Charlotte or the Nets for a play-in spot, but their clearest path, albeit unlikely, is beating out Atlanta).
