Deep dive into Knicks’ history: How they escaped this misery before

Red Holzman, Pat Riley and Phil JacksonHere is the bad news: You are a Knicks fan, and you look at your team and feel hopeless, and you look around the league and you feel helpless. You want to be excited about Jeff Hornacek, but all you can think of in the immediate is this:

We need a shooting guard. I sure wish he still could play.

Here is the good news: The Knicks have been here before. They have been trapped in awful quicksand before, with little hope of emerging — and yet they emerged. And though, yes, the NBA of 1967 and the NBA of 1990 may have been different animals than the NBA of 2016 — simpler yet somehow still more complex, fewer teams and more options — the yesterday isn’t quite…