Several current Knicks fully expect the loudest ovation to start the new decade at the Garden to go to an opposing player.
Carmelo Anthony, the team’s marquee star for much of the 2010s before a 2017 trade to Oklahoma City, will return to New York on Wednesday night for the second time since his departure and the first since signing with Portland earlier this season.
“I think he should get a standing ovation,” veteran forward and fellow Brooklyn native Taj Gibson said after practice Tuesday in Westchester. “He did a lot for the city. Came back, did well for the team.