This is it. This is what we’ve all been biding our time for. This was why Knicks winning streaks and Knicks losing skids were each dismissed with equal fervor across the last six months.

All during that time, I’ve had the impossible task of knocking the words of Tripper Harrison in “Meatballs” out of my head, when he tried to get his troops at Camp North Star ready for one final battle with Camp Mohawk.

Haven’t you?

“Do you know that they use the most sophisticated training methods from the Soviet Union, East and West Germany, and the newest Olympic power, Trinidad-Tobago? But it doesn’t matter. It just doesn’t matter. IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER. I tell you, IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER! IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER! IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER!”