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So, Nick's tonight, game two, game one on Saturday.

They hold serve, which is what you have to do.

You know, you play all year to get home field, and they got home field.

So there'll be four games at Madison Square Garden.

And as Pat Riley, who might be the guy next door to me right now, has always said,

a playoff series doesn't begin until you lose a game at home.

So if the Knicks win all their home games, they'll win in seven.

But I think it's going to be a lot quicker than that.

We'll see if the Pistons learned anything from Saturday's game.

And if the Knicks actually start off better than they did.

Because they had a bad first half.

Josh Hart didn't play much because of foul trouble.

But campaign was unbelievable as they went off on a 21-to-nothing run.

If you win tonight, if you're the next, you have to feel pretty good about things.

Because then you go to Detroit and you figure I could take one of the two games in Detroit,

and then you come home and you win game five, just the way I'm predicting.

We'll see.

We'll see.

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