Analyzing Friday’s Brooklyn Nets at New York Knicks odds and lines, with NBA expert picks, predictions and best bets.

On Friday evening, the New York Knicks will host the Brooklyn Nets at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. For the game, the Knicks could be without one of their best players, as All-Star forward Karl-Anthony Towns is on the injury report.

Knicks fans were mostly ecstatic. Nets fans were disappointed but understood. The blockbuster trade that sent Mikal Bridges from Brooklyn to Broadway for five first-round draft picks, a second-rounder and a first-round pick swap felt like a seismic move that said a lot about the directions the two franchises were headed.

The game is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. EST and will be broadcast on NBC Sports Boston and the YES Network. Fans looking to watch this NBA game can do so for free by using FuboTV and DirecTV Stream, which both offer a free trial or with SlingTV, which doesn’t offer a free trial but has promotional offers available.

After dropping a winnable contest in their first game of the 2024-25 NBA Cup to a banged-up Atlanta Hawks roster, the Boston Celtics needed to get back in the win column, and boy did they. Blowing out the Brooklyn Nets on the road to the tune of 139-114,