The best Knicks team in 30 years

PLUS: Highlights and takes from two days of action over two years.

Good morning. Let’s basketball.

Courtiers Strolling in a Garden; Hieronymus Francken I; 1610

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Scores

Tuesday

Bucks 120, Pacers 112 — Resilient win for the Bucks, who trailed by 19 in the third but worked it to a single-possession game entering the fourth. Winning when Dame Lillard shoot 3/14 is big.

Raptors 71, Celtics 125 — Beating a visitor by 54 in an afternoon game is nasty business.

Clippers 86, Spurs 122 — This game is a textbook example of how, no matter how good your defense can perform, when your offense is off the rails it can pull the defense down with it. L.A. gave up so many fast breaks.

Chris Paul is many things but among those things is SHOWMAN.

Timberwolves 105, Thunder 113 — An absolute dogfight. OKC’s third quarter was the stuff of nightmares. Just relentless. Minnesota fought back and had some chances. I liked most of what I saw from Julius Randle, but the ceiling just feels lower than last year.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is on a 3-year heater.

Cavaliers 122, Lakers 110 — Cleveland is 9-0 against the West, and 4-0 on the road against the West. In January they will visit Dallas, Oklahoma City, Minnesota and Houston. If they ace those games …