Knicks make things look easy, send Hawks home in historic fashion: Game 6 takeaways

We saw NBA playoff history Thursday as the New York Knicks obliterated the Atlanta Hawks, 140-89, to slam the door on their Eastern Conference opening-round series.The Knicks rode a 47-point lead into halftime, breaking the record for the largest halftime margin in a playoff game. They fell just three points shy of the largest halftime lead in any NBA regular-season or playoff game and at one point led by 61 points, the largest lead in a playoff game in the play-by-play era (since 1996-97).Advertisement