CLEVELAND — Knicks coach David Fizdale may need the upcoming All-Star break to go someplace warm and reorganize his thoughts.
Ten days before the Kristaps Porzingis blockbuster, Fizdale had stretched the boundaries when he said the 7-foot-3 Latvian had been “really engaged’’ with his team.
Either he exaggerated the truth or misread Porzingis. Now the first-year Knicks coach has planted another seed for his revisionist-history tree. He said Monday morning here the Knicks “stuck to the plan’’ by trading Porzingis.
You can knock or praise the Porzingis haul, but you can’t pretend the franchise was not building around its injured bedrock.