“Late afternoon in early February,” Alice McDermott wrote, “was there a moment of the year better suited for despair?” Is Alice McDermott a Knicks fan? So far this month the ‘bockers have played three games and dropped three. Last year they lost their first seven February contests; the year before that six of their first seven; the year before that their first five; they year before that five of their first six.
This is the time of year we dream of other lives, other teams, other histories. I get it. I know what you’re feeling.