You know it’s bad when the most exciting thing to happen to the New York Knicks in 2019 in Shaquille O’Neal urging young players to play for them.
The dog days of the tank are officially here.
No matter how excited you are about the potential of Allonzo Trier or Noah Vonleh’s double-doubles, you’d have to be wearing rose-colored sunglasses to see the current squad as anything but depressing.
Since the beginning of December, the Knicks have lost 17 of 20 tilts to some real bottom feeders like the Cleveland Cavaliers, Phoenix Suns and the Atlanta Hawks.