Closeout games the hardest games to win. 

Your opponent is desperate trying to keep their season alive. 

For the 2026 Knicks, though, they’ve been no sweat.

New York has taken care of business the entire playoffs, but they’ve been especially dominant when given a chance to send their opponent packing. 

First it was the Hawks, then the 76ers. 

On Tuesday night the Cavaliers became the latest team to fall victim, as the Knicks completed the Eastern Conference Finals sweep with a Game 4 victory. 

New York is now headed to their first NBA Finals since 1999. 

And they did so in dominant fashion again, opening an early lead they never looked back from, demolishing the home squad by a 37 points. 

With that, they became the first team in NBA history to win three closeout games by 30+ points in a single postseason.

Their margin of victory of a whopping 39.3 points is also an NBA record. 

“We don’t want to leave any doubt,” Miles McBride said. “We just want to come out and handle out business.”

“We’ve been playing hard and mixing in a little luck,” Jalen Brunson added. “But most importantly, we’ve been coming in focused and are just locked in on the moment.”

The next moment for them will be the opener of the NBA Finals.