It’s the Heat. It’s the Knicks. It’s South Beach and it’s the Garden. All that will be missing is the old “NBA on NBC” theme song.
All that will be missing is the old “NBA on NBC” theme song.
Both pulled off surprisingly one-sided victories, the Knicks taking down the 51-win Cavaliers and the Heat shocking the top-seeded Bucks, both in five games.It will be Heat star Jimmy Butler The Post’s Zach Braziller breaks down the key matchups that will decide whether the Knicks can get past their old rivals and return to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time in 23 years:Charles Wenzelberg/New York PostThe Knicks were the most inaccurate 3-point shooting team in the first round, making just 28.2 percent of their attempts. Some of that can be attributed to the opponent.
The Heat can struggle defending the 3 — the Bucks shot 37.9 percent in their first-round series — and will be without one of their top perimeter defenders in Victor Oladipo .Miami was one of the worst 3-point shooting teams in the league during the regular season, hitting just 34.4 percent of their attempts, which was 27th in the NBA.
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