Mikal Bridges ' basketball skills were not their best on Monday, so he relied on his football knowledge instead to make the game-saving play in the New York Knicks ' 108-105 overtime victory against the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of their second-round series.

The Knicks were the definition of resilient — they could have rolled over down 20 but didn’t. With a 20-6 run in the second half of the third quarter, New York stormed back to make it a game. Jalen Brunson was doing his own matchup hunting, going at Al Horford, and it worked.

Former Brooklyn Nets guard Mikal Bridges and the New York Knicks are trying to knock off the defending champion Boston Celtics. Monday was a show.