March mailbag: Donovan vs. KAT as Knicks, the Celtic future & “we” vs. “they”

Sometime late last century, advertising consultant/futurist Faith Popcorn predicted we’d someday stop experiencing our day-to-day lives as the passage of time and instead as the passage of trends. In that vein, think of this as a springtime mailbag, clearing away the dead thoughts and detritus of a winter that saw the Knicks survive rather than thrive, with the promise of new growth as the playoffs and its thousand untold stories await to bloom.

Knowing what we now know, would the Knicks be better off if they had traded a couple years ago for Donovan Mitchell — and thus presumably not for KAT last year? Lots of unknowns within this question (who gets traded?) but still, whaddya think?

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