LAS VEGAS — On the toughest night in what had been a month of tough nights, Tim Hardaway Jr. seriously considered quitting basketball.
Hardaway, a first-round draft pick and son of five-time All-Star Tim Hardaway, had just played his first game in the NBA developmental league. His team, the Canton Charge, lost and he shot poorly. Now, after eating a postgame meal from McDonald’s, he watched as his teammates stretched out on the floor of the team bus as they made a five-hour drive home through the snow to Ohio.
“I was second-guessing myself at the time, thinking about if I really wanted to play,” Hardaway recalled last week before a Knicks summer league game.