Life in the NBA is no joke. Long road trips and back-to-backs are two of the usual pitfalls that teams face over the course of an 82-game season. On Saturday, the New York Knicks faced a different challenge: a noon start time against the upstart Sacramento Kings.
Both head coaches had their opinions on the early start to the game. Knicks head coach David Fizdale looked at it as a learning experience for his young roster.
“This is the league,” Fizdale told reporters in his pregame press conference. “There’s gonna be pockets of your schedule that’s just gonna be rough and not what you consider normal, especially coming from college.