Schedules generally benefit home teams. When one team back-to-back and three games in four days and four games in five nights versus a squad off of a day off, it almost always is the road team that is unrested. This is a very rare scheduling dichotomy in which it benefits the road team.

The erratic Knicks are also have a game against the Pacers. So they are also playing two of the best team in the NBA back-to-back.