It does not carry the same burdens as the two giants who led the Knicks previously last their dances with glory and preparation. Willis Reed was a center of the old school model: fierce rebounds and inner domain (even giving a few centimeters to almost all the centers he has never played).
Patrick Ewing? When he was at his best, it was a bidirectional force, swallowing increasingly important rebounds and demanding the ball at every important moment of each game he played as a Knick. Both they drove and Ewing could shoot from the perimeter, but in those years, there was no shot of 3 points, and there were others that would help the issues of the depths.
Karl-Anthony Towns is as talented as any of those icons or Knicks granite. Now, while these Knicks playoffs last, it will be a focal point of everything they do: good and bathroom. The game 1 on Saturday night of the Opening Round of the East Conference against the Pistons was simply the first step in what hopes to be a message of time and place, the cities recorded their name with those names forever.
And there is no better way to dive in the postseason chapter of his career than in front of the expectant eyes of Madison Square Garden.
