In the 1981-82 season, the Knicks were not good. By today’s standards, that 33-49 team should have a banner raised in its honor. But these were the black-and-white olden days of yore, when tanking was not really a thing. That season, Knick guard Micheal Ray Richardson uttered one of the great tabloid quotes of all-time: “The ship be sinking.”
When ships sink, we rubberneck. If you remember the 2015 tank, undoubtedly this takes you back.
We’re all in this lost season together. We’re not watching for wins, and given the Knicks utter absence of lottery luck, we ain’t watching with optimism for ping pong odds, either.