Tim Hardaway Jr.’s contract doesn’t look any better yet.
Two games into his second stint with the Knicks, Hardaway already is struggling to carry the weight of his four-year, $71 million contract.
In his return to Madison Square Garden, the team’s biggest free-agent acquisition became no more popular with the skeptical fanbase, hitting just 4-of-16 shots from the field (14 points) as the Knicks blew a 21-point lead, and dropped their home opener, 111-107, to the Pistons on Saturday night.
Hardaway, who averaged a career-best 14.5 points per game on 45.5 percent shooting with the Hawks last season, scored just eight points, on 3-of-10 shooting while battling foul trouble in a season-opening loss to Thunder on Thursday.