Knicks one win from NBA Finals after convincing Game 3 win over Cavaliers

CLEVELAND — The Knicks are on the threshold now.They can almost taste it.It’s within touching distance.

The Eastern Conference trophy will be in the building Monday.The Knicks will be able to reach out and grasp it.They have one foot in the Finals, the destination that was demanded of them this season.

The destination that they fell just short of last year.The destination that has eluded them since 1999.The Knicks are one win away after breezing past the Cavaliers 121-108 on Saturday night at Rocket Arena to take an overpowering 3-0 series lead.

They have a chance to record back-to-back dominant sweeps.“We won all these games in a row as a team,” Karl-Anthony Towns said.“We’ve had this winning streak as a team.

We’ve found these ways to get these great wins, even down 22 in Game 1, we came back as a team.As long as we stay together, we stay unified, we feel, we always have felt, the sky is the limit for us.”The Cavaliers’ motto is “Let Em Know.” It’s plastered all over the arena.

It was written on a huge flag that made its way around the crowd pregame.Well, they did let the Knicks know — that they had no ability to make this a series or even challenge them.Saturday was the Knicks’ fifth straight road playoff win by at least 10 points, tying the NBA record.Saturday’s final score doesn’t indicate a complete blowout like the Knicks have delivered in so many of these now 10 straight wins — nine of which have been by double-digits.

But it also never really felt all that close, either.The Knicks never trailed.The Cavs tied the game twice, but there were zero lead changes.

The Knicks kept the Cavs at arm’s length pretty much the entirety.Given the way they’ve been playing since the middle of the first round, there was never really a sense the Knicks were under any sort of threat.When the Knicks scored the first five points of the fourth quarter to take a 14-point lead, the arena was noticeably deflated — besides the strong nu...