Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, right, goes to the basket against Cleveland Cavaliers center Jarrett Allen, left, in the second half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, AP

There will be three of these games this year, two of them before Feb. 1, which may or may not be some kind of artificial benchmark for what the Knicks look like, or are going to look like for the important part of the season.

The Knicks playing the Bucks at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum was always going to be interesting, anyway, because the Bucks still fancy themselves one of the essential teams in the East, and they still have Giannis Antetokounmpo on their team. That alone made Tuesday night’s early-season tilt a nice alternate choice to Game 4 of the World Series.

But, of course, until Antetokounmpo

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