Knicks’ Mitchell Robinson battles through injury to make mark off bench in Game 1

For Mitchell Robinson, playing in the NBA Finals was never in doubt. “I’ve been here for eight years,” he told reporters postgame. “There was no way I was going to miss this.”The longest-tenured Knick did find himself listed as questionable, though, after having to undergo surgery to repair a fractured fifth metacarpal in his right hand last week.Robinson was expected to be able to get back out there with the team, and he ended up officially being cleared by th