Why the Knicks can cover. The Knicks have lost four of their last five games entering Sunday but two of those losses came against Oklahoma City, the best team in the West, and ano

The Bucks have won three in a row. They were 109-106 winners in Orlando Friday night. The Knicks were waxed by the OKC Thunder for the second time in a week Friday night losing 126-101. It was New York’s third loss in their last four games.

The defeat dropped the Bucks to 2-7 and to the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings, but the match Antetokounmpo lit sparked a turnaround that has seen the Bucks go 18-9 since. They have won three in a row heading into this afternoon’s return to MSG.