It's time to start having title dreams about these Knicks
And that's understandable. I get it. It's been a long time. Too long.
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But even for those pessimists, it must've been impossible to watch Friday night's utter annihilation of the Celtics and not think about the Larry O'Brien trophy.
It is, gasp, realistic. Really.
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