Imagine this scenario playing out at the Garden: Knicks coach Derek Fisher sits behind the bench during games and isn’t allowed to call timeouts; owner James Dolan disappears at midseason and the paychecks stop arriving; and Robin Lopez is sneaked onto the roster under a Mongolian passport.
Madness, right?
Yet that’s the exact species of dysfunction that reigned last season at Kristaps Porzingis’ club team in Spain — and the No. 4 pick in last month’s draft still managed to elicit these glowing scouting reports, as told to The New York Times:
Former Sevilla coach Scott Roth: “Kris is a tough kid with passion, a worker, and he’s not going to back down from anyone.