Karl-Anthony Towns gifts Timothée Chalamet his jersey after the Knicks crush Memphis 143-106, signaling a new defensive era.

There is no Paolo Banchero. And there’s no Luka Doncic, Ja Morant, Karl-Anthony Towns, Damian Lillard, Kyrie Irving, Blake Griffin, Brandon Roy, Derrick Rose or Chris Paul, either. They were all ...

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

Towns dazzled on the court with a 24-point ... defensive identity that stifled Memphis’s usually potent attack. Ja Morant, the Grizzlies’ dynamic star, struggled against the Knicks’ defense ...