The story is rarely in the streak, honestly. Losses pile on top of one another, winless weeks become winless months, and the losing can almost feel like the worst kind of February head cold, the one you wake up with the day after the Super Bowl and stays with you through Presidents Day and seems to linger all the way to Fat Tuesday.
The Knicks lost to the 76ers at the Garden Wednesday night, 126-111, and unless you’ve either tuned out (good for you) or been trapped under a rock (please dial 9-1-1 immediately), you know that makes it an 18-game losing streak.