The Knicks’ candidates — Hart, Mikal Bridges and OG Anunoby — were long shots.

Perhaps the best indication of what’s important for these Knicks was the theme of Wednesday night’s postgame locker room interviews. 

Nuggets coach Michael Malone slammed Adam Silver’s idea of shedding two minutes off each quarter.

The best basketball player on the planet looked average, and the Knicks took advantage. Besieged by early foul trouble and flustered late by the Knicks’ aggressiveness, Nuggets star Nikola Jokic, the triple-double machine, produced a single-double with just 17 points in New York’s fifth straight victory Wednesday, 122-112. Jalen Brunson was the best player on...

Mitchell Robinson is still awaiting clearance for contact.