SportsLine's model simulated New York vs. Indiana 10,000 times and revealed its NBA picks for Saturday's 2025 Eastern Conference finals matchup

Thibodeau has begun expanding his lineups and giving more runway to the likes of Delon Wright and Landry Shamet, who have done an excellent job playing perimeter defense. Shamet has the second-best defensive rating of any player in the conference finals (East or West) with a minimum of two total minutes played.

Josh Hart has brought a warrior’s mentality off the bench for the Knicks, and you can count on him to keep doing the dirty work, no matter how Game 6 plays out.