There’s nothing more painful than watching your team go through a slow rebuild. OK, take that back. There’s nothing more painful than watching two of your teams go through a slow rebuild, which is exactly what NBA fans around here are going to be doing for the next couple of years.
For the third straight season, both the Knicks and the Nets missed the playoffs. Yet, this year there was a major difference. The Knicks, who are looking for a new coach to go along with their fairly new management team of Scott Perry and Steve Mills, are no longer thinking short-term and trying to pretend that the goal is to make the playoffs every year.