BOSTON — I wish you could hear what I’m hearing right now. Honestly. Seriously. A guy just sneezed on the other side of TD Garden and you could hear it. His friend said, “Gesundheit.” You could hear that, too. Over in the other corner, some guy just whispered, “Son of a …” and it was like he was sitting next to you..

That’s the sound of silence.

Hello, darkness, my old friend.

“It’s a long game,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said after this hard-to-fathom, harder-to-believe 91-90 masterpiece of a victory over the Celtics Wednesday night. “You have to keep playing.”