NBA Playoffs: Knicks' Elfrid Payton Status Against Hawks

Elfrid Payton will start for the Knicks on Wednesday.

The New York Knicks and Atlanta Hawks will play Game 2 on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden.

On Sunday, the Knicks played their first playoff game in eight years as a franchise and fell to the Hawks 107-105 on Trae Young's last-second floater to seal the win for the Hawks.

On Wednesday, the Knicks will keep point guard Elfrid Payton in the starting lineup, and his status can be seen in a post embedded below from FantasyLabs NBA.

Lineup note: Elfrid Payton will remain in starting lineup Wednesday.

— FantasyLabs NBA (@FantasyLabsNBA) May 26, 2021

The two teams will tip-off at 7:30 Eastern Time, and the game is being broadcasted on national television and can be watched on TNT on Wednesday night.

The Knicks are 1.5-point favorites over the Atlanta Hawks in New York for Game 2, according to FanDuel.

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