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 Karl-Anthony Towns and OG Anunoby react to the team's big win over the Nuggets, including Nikola Jokic's comments that they are title contenders.

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