A tribute to Lance Thomas, longest-tenured Knick

Adam Hunger-USA TODAY Sports How Lance would want us to remember himIf it was his call, Lance Thomas would still be on the Knicks. Alas, the front office didn’t offer him a contract and he signed with Brooklyn, so the time has come to pay tribute to one of the longest-tenured role players in recent Knicks history.

Thomas was on the Knicks for four and a half seasons, which means he spent more time in the orange and blue than Tyson Chandler and Kyle O’Quinn (three years each), J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert (three and a half years apiece), and Courtney Lee (two and a half years), to name a few. Seriously, somebody please provide a list of the role players who spent more than four and a half…