These battle-tested Knicks are prepared — deliver on the playoffs

The playoffs are totally different. The depth is totally different. The stakes are totally different. The Backyard is totally different. 

And because the common season involves an finish towards the Hornets on Sunday, the Knicks put on the look of a harmful group prepared and keen — TBD if they’re ready — to embrace the good expectations of James Dolan’s NBA Finals-or-Bust mandate … and of bloodthirsty, championship-starved Knicks followers. 

The Knicks served up a scrumptious appetizer for the upcoming primary course and captured the No. 3 seed with a 112-95 beatdown of the Raptors on Friday night time, conserving their ft on the gasoline following their Thursday win over the hated Celtics. 

This time it was Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Cities displaying what the Knicks will be when they’re Double Bother, Batman and Robin, Clyde and Willis.