The Knicks started a stretch of six straight games outside of New York City about as poorly as possible.
As has been chronicled by me and others, this seven-game road trip, which started on Martin Luther King Day with a decisive win in Brooklyn, could very well determine if the Knicks are buyers or sellers at the trade deadline. They desperately needed a solid showing on Wednesday night in Memphis.
It didn’t happen.
They had the good fortune of playing the Grizzlies, who were missing both Marc Gasol and Mike Conley. It should have been the easiest game of the trip, but it turned into one of the worst losses of the season.