Rebounding struggles spoil outstanding defensive performance on Jalen Brunson as Sixers drop Game 1

NEW YORK -- Making their first postseason appearance at Madison Square Garden since the days of Mo Cheeks and Charles Barkley, Saturday night's Game 1 between the New York Knicks and the Philadelphia 76ers was something this generation of basketball fans had never seen before: meaningful, tense basketball played at a high level between two would-be Eastern Conference rivals.

And yet, for Philadelphia fans who have been living and dying with their 76ers over the last decade, much of it felt all too familiar.

The Philadelphia 76ers fell to the New York Knicks 111-104 on Saturday night, losing the first game of the best of seven series. The reasons they find themselves in an 0-1 series h...