Knicks brace for grueling 5-game slate — starting with Wembanyama’s Spurs

Key Highlights

• 2-seeded San Antonio Spurs on Sunday. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe Knicks will face the Spurs (43-16), travel to Toronto to visit the Raptors (34-25), then return to Madison Square Garden to host the NBA’s No.
• 1-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder (46-15).
• They will then kickoff a five-game road trip with stops in Denver (37-23), Los Angeles against both the Lakers (34-24) and Clippers (27-31), Utah (18-41) and Indiana (15-45) before hosting the Golden State Warriors back home on March 15. After the Spurs game, six of the Knicks’ following seven games will be on the road.
• The stretch also includes two sets of back-to-backs, first in Toronto on Tuesday before hosting OKC on Wednesday, and next, in Los Angeles, seeing Luka Doncic and Kawhi Leonard on consecutive nights. Head coach Mike Brown insists he doesn’t look beyond the next game on the schedule.“You know the schedule better than me.
• I know we’re going to Toronto some time soon,” he told reporters in Milwaukee after Friday’s win.