The Knicks played a near-perfect game in their 137-98 throttling of the Philadelphia Sixers in game one. Many excused the 76ers no-show due to playing a highly contested game seven in Boston just two nights prior. After the game Sixers star Joel Embiid tried passing the blame onto the officiating. "It did? I don't know, you've got to ask Jalen Brunson that," Embiid said about the Sixers drawing fouls in the first half working in their favor. "I don't think I got to the free throw line as much as I wanted." The irony is that despite losing the game by 39-points, Philadelphia took 34 free throws while the Knicks got to the charity stripe only 17 times – with four of those attempts coming from Mitchell Robinson, who was purposely put there. The whole notion that Jalen Brunson, who got to the line eight times compared to Embiid's nine, is some free throw merchant is more fiction than fact.…