Knicks Close in on East Finals After Tatum Suffers Injury

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00:00Right now, though, with the injury to Tatum will await his official status.

00:04We do not expect him to play again in this postseason.

00:07The New York Knicks are one win away from the Eastern Conference Finals

00:11for the first time in two and a half decades,

00:14and now a minus 620 outright favorite to win this second round series.

00:19It was the Celtics, despite trailing by a game in this set,

00:23entering game four as a minus 295 favorite last night.

00:27It's shocking. It really is.

00:28It's like the Boston Celtics being down 3-1 and now without their best player.

00:32The uphill climb is going to be steep.

00:33They have to win one of those next three games.

00:36We're talking about the Knicks, and one of those games

00:37automatically going to be at Madison Square Garden.

00:40You want to turn the lights out on the Boston Celtics as soon as you can

00:43because you know in game number five they will be reeling at home

00:46and just saying, oh, I wonder what's going to happen here.

00:48Don't give them life.

00:49Take a lead in the first half and try to close them out in the second.

00:52But I'm impressed by the Knicks, man.

00:54Healthy teams move on, and as I said before,

00:56you do need breaks in order to win a championship at times here.

01:00It's going to be hard to beat the Boston Celtics entering into the series,

01:03but if you win the advantages on the court and off the court,

01:06like injuries, that goes into it here.

01:08Can you imagine the New York Knicks with a gentleman sweep over the Boston Celtics

01:12after the regular season that the Knicks had against the upper echelon teams?

01:15This has been such an exciting and awesome round number two in the NBA

01:19because on a night-to-night basis, Ben,

01:20we have no idea what we're about to watch.