The New York Knicks enter the Game 5 matchup of the Eastern Conference semifinals with a 3-1 lead over the Boston Celtics.

The Boston Celtics should have folded like a wet cardboard box. But they did not, and instead put together one of their best games in recent memory.

Knicks in five, Knicks in five,” scores of orange-and-blue clad diehards chanted outside TD Garden in Beantown.