{"id":202932,"date":"2026-04-20T02:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202932\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T02:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:02:11","slug":"knicks-must-give-hawks-no-reason-to-believe-in-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202932\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks must give Hawks no reason to believe in Game 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look, to these eyes (and ears), it\u2019s understandable why the crowd outside Madison Square Garden took a little extra glee in what was happening on the other side of those walls Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, the Knicks were taking care of their business against the Atlanta Hawks, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/18\/sports\/knicks-roll-past-hawks-for-huge-game-1-playoff-victory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">winning 113-102 <\/a>and starting what they hope is an extended playoff run on the right foot.<\/p>\n<p>Outside?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKNICKS IN FOUR!\u201d they chanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Look, to these eyes (and ears), it\u2019s understandable why the crowd outside Madison Square Garden took a little&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1262,21,56784,80162,9,11,1104,10,319,431,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-202932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-atlanta-hawks","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nba-playoffs","11":"tag-nba-playoffs-2026","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}