On Sunday afternoon, the New York Knicks continued their struggles against elite teams with a blowout road loss at the hands of the Boston Celtics. It was the second straight game that New York was routed by a team ahead of them in the Eastern Conference standings,

With eight minutes left in an eventual blowout 118-105 loss to the Boston Celtics, Karl-Anthony Towns left the game with an apparent knee injury. He hobbled to the locker room after being helped off the bench, clearly in pain, but checked back into the contest with four minutes left and the game largely out of grasp.