Knicks guard Immanuel Quickley reacts after scoring during the first half of the team's NBA game against the Kings on Thursday at Madison Square Garden. Credit: AP/John Minchillo
The 2,000 fans who were at the Garden on Thursday night were determined to make their voices heard. So they chanted for coach Tom Thibodeau to put in rookie point guard Immanuel Quickley during a rough patch against the Kings in the first quarter.
Quickley did get in, and boy did the fans get their money’s worth out of him and the rest of the squad.
Quickley, who was passed over for Derrick Rose as the fill-in starter for the injured Elfrid Payton, scored 18 first-half points as part of a Knicks offensive explosion.