The Knicks hosted the Magic on Friday and they put the clamps on Orlando, limiting the Disneylanders to a meager 74 points, the lowest-scoring outing all season long by any team across the league and the first time the Magic scored fewer than 92 points in 2023-24.
The win saw New York overtake Orlando in the Eastern Conference standings to retake possession of the no. 4 seed sitting half a game above the Magic and 3.5 games behind no. 3 Milwaukee and four games below Cleveland.
Here is what coach Tom Thibodeau and a few other protagonists said after yesterday’s game.