For the second straight season, the New York Knicks failed to close out Game 5 of a first-round playoff series — this time in a 106–103 loss to the Detroit Pist ...

The Knicks lost Game 5 to the Pistons, with Brunson and Hart on the sideline for much of the final three minutes.

New York needed its best offensive initiators late in the fourth quarter, but they were left stranded at the scorer's table in crunch time.

Cade Cunningham has won a lot of games in his young career, but not one like this, in this place, with these stakes.