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.

The New York Knicks overcame the Denver Nuggets 122-112 on Wednesday, Jan. 29. As expected, the big-man battle between Nikola Jokic and Karl-Anthony Towns didn’t disappoint.However, it would appear that Draymond Green of the Golden State Warriors wasn’t impressed with how Towns’ was instructed to guard Jokic.

Towns has missed the Knicks' last two games after injuring his Thumb during a Jan. 13 loss to the Detroit Pistons. The star center played through discomfort, posting 26 points and 12 rebounds on 7-of-17 shooting from the field, 4-of-9 from three and 8-of-10 from the free-throw line. He declined to say whether he underwent X-rays following the loss.