The Fantasy goes slightly awry

The Knicks are now in 8th place.  Don't exhale, though, because every one of the last six games they play is against somebody else in the playoffs, including the Nets in Brooklyn, who we can assume are pissed.

So that's all good.

The bad part is that the Indiana Pacers, whose free fall was supposed to make them easy pickings for Clyde Frazier's old team, have come apart so profoundly that they are in danger of dropping down to the second seed.  Meaning that the newly resurgent Knicks will play the Heat in the first round, rather than in the third.

Which would be fantastical -- the way horrible nightmares can be fantastical -- not fantastic.