Knicks-Heat Game 3 skirmish a taste of teams’ history

MIAMI — Here’s the thing. They’re right. All of them. They’re right, and they’re keeping it all in perspective, and they’re acting like grown-ups, and they’re acting like professionals and … and, well, damn them for all of that. “You just start over,” Isaiah Hartenstein said.

And that was that. No hard words. No hard feelings. If we are talking like responsible citizens then we applaud all of the parties involved, sure. They acted in the heat of the moment, then metaphorically shook on it. It was over. Apparently, heading into Game 4 on Monday night, it is over. He wasn’t hurt, and in fact was smiling. But Hartenstein saw this and pushed Zeller in the back. Reacting to this, Miami’s Caleb Martin shoved Hartenstein, too. All three were whistled for technicals. Zeller’s and Hartenstein’s offset. Martin’s allowed Randle to take one technical free throw. To nobody’s great surprise, Randle missed the foul shot.

And while in the moment it sure felt like a thanks-for-the-memories throwback to some old Knicks-Heat shenanigans from back in the day … well, no. There was Randle’s laugh. There was Jimmy Butler shimmying during the resulting delay, also smiling, then spinning a ball on his fingertips, as carefree as a kid on the playground. And look, officially and for the record: good. We don’t need the old tough-guy sideshows that used to either sidetrack or highlight those old series.

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