NEW YORK — Just over 24 hours before nearly 20,000 rabid Knicks fans, the President of the United States and his Secret Service security detail descended upon Madison Square Garden, Luke Kornet stood next to an inflatable Larry O’Brien Trophy and said he actually liked playing on the road.
“Something fun about the road environment is all the adversity and noise honestly helps you sharpen up and focus even more on the basketball,” the veteran center told Sports Illustrated on Sunday in anticipation of facing the MSG crowd in Game 3. “I’ve always felt that way about road games and I always liked it. [It’s] kind of like you against everybody else in the building. The pressure brings you together in a greater sense.”
