Buckets Over Broadway · Aug 3, 2016
Knicks: How The 2016-17 Team Compares To 2012-13
The similarities between 2012-13 New York Knicks and the 2016-17 squad are uncanny. This is how the similar they really are.
No one was calling the New York Knicks a super team before the start of the 2012-13 season. In fact, as usual, the Knicks were being ridiculed for their offseason moves.
The Knicks signed players who were on the verge of retirement, and as a result, were the butt of everyone’s jokes.
At Bill Russell‘s Mentor’s Champions Golf Challenge in the summer of 2012, Charles Barkley was asked about the Knicks’ additions. Per Mark Herrmann of Newsday:
“I like Marcus Camby,” he said. Then someone mentioned, “Jason Kidd,” and Barkley said, deadpan, “What year is this?”
