CLEVELAND — As the Knicks set up for a potential game-tying shot in the final seconds Monday at Quicken Loans Arena there was John Jenkins, signed to a 10-day contract earlier in the day, inbounding to Dennis Smith Jr., less than two weeks with the team, and then Jenkins circled to the corner where he took a pass and attempted a shot that rimmed out.
And that’s a pretty fair description of how you get to a franchise-record 17 consecutive losses and hold firmly onto the worst record in the NBA after a 107-104 loss to the just-slightly-better-than-them Cavaliers.