New York Knicks Mike Vaccaro Knicks have to ride the highs and lows of the Mitchell Robinson roller coaster By Mike Vaccaro Published April 28, 2026, 7:23 p.m. ET You can never boil things down this simply, of course, but the first four games of this Hawks-Knicks first-round series have followed a reliable blueprint in one way.
The Knicks won two of those games, Game 1 and Game 4. In Game 1, Mitchell Robinson was a plus-5 for his 15 minutes of action. In Game 4, he was also a plus-5, in 15 minutes.
More tellingly, the Knicks lost two of those games, Game 2 and Game 3.