New York spent all of Wednesday hounding Cleveland’s ballhandlers in the backcourt. The Knicks alternated who was at the point of attack. They threw different looks. The Knicks wanted to make their opponent work for what it wanted, to be on the front foot, as opposed to reacting.

The Cavaliers and Knicks, two Eastern Conference powerhouses, square off to begin their seasons. Here's everything to know.

This doesn’t have to follow the way things went 30 years ago, which also happened to be the last time the Knicks entered a season weighed down with this many ambitions and expectations.

This can be a beautiful story in a great basketball town, and the New York Knicks have the pen in their hands.

Mike Brown did something in the first half of the New York Knicks' season-opener that Tom Thibodeau would've never done.

When the New York Knicks chose Mike Brown over Tom Thibodeau to become head coach for the 2025–2026 season, fans were left with plenty of questions. Would the offense become more spaced out? Could the bench improve from last season? And just how different would Brown’s approach be from Thibodeau’s?

Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison surprised the sports world when he traded Luka Dončić last season. Then he shockingly ended up with the No. 1 pick in this year's draft, which landed him Cooper Flagg, the youngest draftee to go first overall since LeBron James in 2003.

Mike Brown brings a very different style of play to a Knicks team fresh off an Eastern Conference Finals appearance, where they were outmatched and outworked by a deeper and younger Pacers team.