Frank Ntilikina beginning to silence any bust talk

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Frank Ntilikina One of the addictive qualities of the game is this: there is still the capacity to surprise. Even in an age of analytics, there is still a requirement to play the games, to either make sense of the numbers or defy them.

Hey, any dice player can tell you: the laws of probability insist you won’t keep hitting point after point when the bones are in your hand, but we’ve all seen it happen.

It was always a little remarkable how quick people were to declare Frank Ntilikina a bust. Some of that wasn’t his fault. Some of that was residual anger loitering after Phil Jackson was exiled days after selecting Ntilikina as one of the last transactions of his stormy…