The Knicks see Monday’s clash against the Heat in Miami as a valuable opportunity to prepare for the postseason.

It marks the third time the Knicks will have played against the Heat in the first 13 games this season, and the second within three days.

“It’s a good playoff warmup, practice, playing the same team over two days or three days,” Karl-Anthony Towns said after practice Sunday. “You gotta be ready for them to adjust, ready for them to do what they gotta do as a coaching staff to counteract what we do and what we showed them last game. It’s gonna be good for us to have sort of a playoff series style of play where we played them two days ago and now we’re about to play them again and at their house. It’s kind of those momentum shifts you see in Game 2 or 3 or 4 and 5 [of a playoff

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