After burning through a bunch of assets and financial flexibility to assemble the current core, the New York Knicks face a ton of urgency to win now. That pressure is not going anywhere. But this team is more viable over the longer term than many people realize
Salary-cap guru Eric Pincus recently dropped his rankings of the league’s worst financial situations. The Knicks crack the list, but they finish eighth. That’s not terrible considering so many contenders are placed in front of them, including the Minnesota, (No. 7), Cleveland, (No. 6), Denver (No. 5), and Orlando (No.