Contrary to Nets fans, Knicks supporters will keep watching their team play through April.

The Brooklyn Nets will host an NBA game today and not again until October at the earliest.

The New York Knicks will play today and host multiple games starting next week and through April, probably a chunk of May, and ideally all the way through mid-June.

Here’s what Coach Thibs, a few Knickerbockers, and a few Pistons (yes, we’re already warming up) had to say in the past few hours.

Tom Thibodeau

On the rest-versus-rhythm debate as the season wraps up:

“Until you have it, you play through. We need to get rhythm. We need to get better as a team, we need to get rhythm and so there’s always rest versus rhythm. You get the highest seed you possibly can, and then you make those decisions about whether you rest or what you’re doing.”

On whether he’ll play regular starters in the finale:

“We’ll deal with Sunday on Sunday.”

On the upcoming Pistons matchup not affecting the team’s immediate focus on Sunday’s matchup:

“We’ll get there when we get there. We still got one more game.”

On the Knicks’ playoff readiness and overall form:

“We need to get rhythm. We need to get better as a team, we need to get a rhythm. You get the highest seed you possibly can, and then you make those decisions about whether you rest or what you’re doing.”

On what needs to happen after recent collapses:

“We got to be honest with ourselves, look at what we did wrong. We got to get it fixed. And we got to get it fixed fast.”

On the team’s inconsistencies over 48 minutes:

“We’ve got to play for 48 minutes — both sides of the ball. That’s the challenge that we have. We’ve got to have rhythm going into the playoffs. So this has to be changed quickly.”

On why he believes winning always matters:

“I always think you need to win. There’s value in winning. I know that.”

Jalen Brunson

On how he’s feeling physically before the season finale:

“I feel great. I feel better. Just continue to strive for that and just making sure I’m 100 percent myself going into tomorrow and Sunday and going for it.”

On whether he wants to play against Brooklyn:

“I want to win on Sunday. It’s just plain and simple.”

On the mental reset needed before the playoffs:

“We have to go into this next game with the right mentality and right mindset and have a short-term memory. We can’t let things like this linger on. It’s important to have short-term memory right now and continue to look forward. I know it’s tough. It sounds like it’s B.S., but it’s literally what we have to do right now in order for us to do better.”

On what went wrong against Cleveland on Friday:

“Obviously, we have to be better. To make it short and sweet: we have to be better. Everything you guys see and we see. We have to fix that.”

On not wanting to focus on the Pistons yet:

“We can talk about [Detroit] once we get through all 82 games.”

Josh Hart

On the challenge of facing Detroit:

“That’s a good young team. We know the type of brand of basketball that they play so we have to go out there and not just match their physicality, but we’ve got to exceed it.

“So we’ve got one more game, we’ve gotta focus on that, but we’ve got a week to prepare for ’em.”

On whether the late-season skid affects team confidence:

“Does [losing these three] do anything to our confidence? No. Obviously, we would have liked to get at least one if not both, but like I said, it’s playoff basketball; we have to flip the page. We have to focus on Brooklyn, ending the season off right, and then Detroit.”

On the current state of the team’s play:

“We’re not playing close to our best basketball this week. We’ll look at situations and how to get us into our best basketball offensive and defensively and figure that out. We’ve gotta go out there and end the season right in Brooklyn and prepare mentally and physically [for Detroit].”

On missed opportunities in recent losses:

“Yeah I mean, even not being at full strength, I think the Boston one is one we for sure should have won. Even Detroit and today, we weren’t our full team out there, but we were capable of winning both of those games—[Friday] we were up [23]. We’ve got to find what makes this team successful.

“And playoff basketball is a different level: the intensity picks up, physicality picks up, so we’ve gotta make sure we spend this week preparing, but more importantly, mentally.”

J.B. Bickerstaff (Detroit Pistons Head Coach)

On Thibodeau’s reputation as a coach:

“Obviously, Thibs is a great coach. His strategy, the way that he gets his guys to compete, defend, all those things. His ability to take away your first strength and the first option of what you’re trying to do is high level.”

On what separates the 2025 Pistons from his 2024 Cavs:

“This team is a completely different team than we had in Cleveland. Just the stylistic thing.

“I like our chances, period, with anybody just because the way we compete, the way they scrap. Again, it’s going to take some time for our guys to experience things. But I think we’re built for playoff basketball. But you’ve still got to find that experience in all that.”

Ron Holland (Detroit Pistons Player)

On the type of fight Detroit will bring to the playoffs against New York:

“I think whoever we play in the playoffs, it’s going to be feisty. That’s just how we play. We bring that Detroit Bad Boys, that Detroit grit to every single game that we play, and if New York is the team that we end up playing, we’re going to bring it every night.”

On the identity of Pistons basketball:

“[Pistons basketball means] 48 minutes of playing hard, and I feel like when we play hard, we’re at our all-time high, and that’s if the ball is going in or not. If we are competing at a high level, all of the other stuff will work out. We know if we [are] guarding the ball, locked in on defense, eventually the offense will end up coming. We kind of hang our hat on our defense for sure.”