The incredibly shorthanded Knicks had to play a basketball game whether they wanted or not on Thursday after trading three players away, thus falling way short of the minimum number of needed/available players to face the Dallas Mavericks at MSG, thus the G League callups.
New York couldn’t beat the Mavs (122-108) but they went to sleep more than happy knowing what had happened before the trade deadline and anxiously waiting for the arrival of Alec Burks and Bojan Bogdanovic from Detroit.
Here is what the protagonists of the day had to say before and after yesterday’s game.