Despite being the closest thing to a consensus pick to win the Eastern Conference, the New York Knicks just received a mammoth reality check: Other NBA teams aren’t worried about them.
And Karl-Anthony Towns is among the primary reasons why.
Really, though, it seems to be the defense at large.
Speaking on the latest episode of The Zach Lowe Show, Zach Lowe relayed some unsettling opinions from around the league. “I don’t hear a lot of people from other Eastern Conference teams express a lot of fear of the Knicks,” he explains, at around the 56:16 mark.