Knicks have too much at stake in Game 4 to get caught up in lingering Joel Embiid silliness

PHILADELPHIA — The easy thing is to feed the beast. There is some rawness and some rancor in this series now. There are some hard feelings and some hurt egos. The Knicks are a team forged by ferocity, tempered by toughness, and now there is a silly sense in the air that if they don't get even with Joel Embiid, Corleone-style, that maybe they aren't as stolid as we thought. There is too much at stake to get dragged into this nonsense. There is the work of a season on the table right now, and if the Knicks are still in the better spot than the Sixers, up 2-1 and halfway to the second round, that can all go poof with 48 minutes of folly and foolishness Sunday. “You adjust to how the game is being