CLEVELAND — Thursday night it was Josh Hart, emerging from the glue-guy factory (or was it the intangibles warehouse?), taking a star turn at Madison Square Garden, flicking in five 3s and flipping the bird at the Cavaliers’ go-ahead-and-knock-the-battery-off-my-shoulder-I-dare-ya strategy.
(Or, in the words of Post colleague [and designated wordsmith] Peter Botte, “GAME 1: Heart. GAME 2: Hart.”)
Tuesday night, in addition to the extra cardiovascular work necessitated by the deep hole the Knicks dug for themselves, there was Landry Shamet, who was the last guy to make the team out of training camp, who was flatly told by Mike Brown before the game, “You may not play tonight” and who, with one clutch shot (and one ethereal bounce) nearly blew the lid off Madison Square Garden.
The game before that? That was when Deuce McBride put on a shooting clinic against the 76ers that would’ve made Steph Curry shake his head, drilling 7-of-9 from 3. The game before that featured Mitchell Robinson providing the singular snapshot of these whole playoffs, dunking an in-bounds pass over Joel Embiid, who seemed to shrink in that moment from seven feet to three. Maybe two.
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