Knicks vs. Celtics Live updates: 2025 NBA Playoffs Game 2 Start time, picks and predictions

If you are a sports fan of a certain age, New York puts your hair on your neck a little in the playoffs in the playoffs, even if you (like me) have no strong connections to the northeast.

Gen z Sports fans grew up in the American League Championship series 2003 and 2004 with the Yankees and Red Sox in the center of the baseball universe. On 2008 they experienced how Eli Manning's outsider New York Giants spoiled New England Patriots's offer for a perfect season at the climax of Tom Bradys and Bill Belichicks forces in an unforgettable Super Bowl Xlii – and then defeated the patriots again in Super Bowl XLVI.

There have also been many other memorable after season moments between these two cities in the past 25 years.

The Rex Ryan-Mark Sanchez Jets, which influence the Belichick Brady patriots in 2011.

And of course, this magical speed camera-in-pan-knick-Celtics series, in which Carmelo Anthony and an air-guitar string-jr Smith end the Paul Pierce-era in Boston.

This series was not that unforgettable. The Celtics were the defending champions while the Knicks had to scratch the pistons in the first round.

But this game 1 makes things beautifully oriented and with these cities, which gave us so much playoff magic for so many years, it is fair to ask what else they have in stock …