NEW YORK -- At some point in the past week, Kristaps Porzingis and Carmelo Anthony exchanged text messages.
Porzingis didn't want to get into the specifics of his conversation with Anthony, but he did share one observation Anthony made about his new home.
"He said it's different. It's different for him now," Porzingis said late Tuesday night. "It's a different team, everything is different."
Things are different for the New York Knicks as well, of course.
For the first time in nearly seven years, the Knicks played a game without Anthony on the roster.