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Knicks Nowhere Close to Contenders

New York Daily News

There was a moment Thursday night when the Knicks were making their only real run of this series, when they were going 30-10 on the Miami Heat and getting out to a 40-29 lead before the end of the first half, a time when the Garden tricked itself into believing that the Knicks had a chance in this game, in this series, when you remembered what this place was like when the Knicks actually had a chance in a series like this, when they had the chops to go up against great players and great teams and win.

Not anymore.

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