In late April, two hikers

The Knicks finished the regular season, but that mark was buoyed heavily by a roaring start to the season. From Jan. 1 on, New York went

. An attack that had opened the season roasting teams behindof Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns found itself defangeda wing defender onto Towns and a center onto inconsistent shooter Josh Hart.

The tactical shift effectively vaporized what had been one of the most efficient offensive actions in the NBA, and New York never really developed a counterpunch — a long-gestating problem thatof the first round, when Towns went without a field-goal attempt in the final 17 minutes of a

to the Pistons. In many ways, the first-round matchup with Detroit represented a snapshot of the Knicks’ season on the whole: more wins than losses, but often arrived at in underwhelming fashion, with occasional

, shaky defense, at-timesPictures and video clips that they received enabled KS Rescue Angels to set up cameras and feeding stations.

“We were doing this for three or four weeks and we always seemed to be one step behind her. Then it all went dark around the four-week mark and we stopped getting any reliable sightings.”Collins believes this was probably when Amber travelled 30 miles to the coastal town of Poole. Locals had reported sightings there of a stray dog but it was too far away for anyone to make the connection.

Incredibly, Amber managed to swim a mile from the town’s affluent neighbourhood of Sandbanks to Brownsea Island. Managed by the National Trust, Brownsea is a wildlife haven where dogs are not usually welcome.“She spent three days there and there was a search party from the National Trust, as well as a lady who lived there who put food out for her every night. She probably got spooked by all the people trying to catch her so she tried to swim back to Sandbanks but got into trouble when she got caught in the currents and tide,” Collins said.