Monday afternoon was the annual MLK Day matinee at Madison Square Garden. Did anyone bother to tell the Knicks players that there was a game this afternoon? I wonder, because pretty much the entire team played like they didn’t know a competitive NBA contest happening. The Charlotte Hornets are a pretty darn good team, even without the services of LaMelo Ball, and they made the Knicks pay. Don’t bother looking at the final score — this one was a laugher pretty much from halftime on.
Hornets forward Miles Bridges came out on fire, scoring a career-high 22 points in the first quarter as the Hornets built an 11-point lead.