Perhaps the best indication of what’s important for these Knicks — or what’s most relevant to their status as either contenders or pretenders — was the theme of Wednesday night’s postgame locker room interviews.

New York Knicks star forward Karl-Anthony Towns reveals his thoughts after Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic called them a contender.

Regardless, the match-up saw two of the league's top centers in Denver's Nikola Jokic and New York's Karl-Anthony Towns go at one another. Neither player ended the contest with their usual dominant performance,