The noise surrounding the Knicks’ Mike Brown won’t die …

The noise surrounding the Knicks’ Mike Brown won’t die down unless they reach the NBA Finals, and even that might not be good enough for the first-year New York coach to be safe. Fair or not, those are the finals-or-bust parameters set by owner James Dolan when he gave that rare interview in which he said as much earlier this season . In the here and now, though, Brown and his staff making the necessary adjustments to respond in the Knicks’ 114-98 Game 4 win over Atlanta to tie the series is far better than the alternative.