As Homer Simpson, stuck with others in a deep hole, instructed, “Dig up!”
To that end, a message to MSG Network: Cut it out. It’s not working. Force-feeding us Carmelo Anthony as if we are smitten with his every move, answer and opinion is the kind of hard sell no one’s buying. And it hasn’t been bought by the basketball literate since even before he arrived from Denver in 2011 — a trade in which the Knicks lost a first-round pick and two second-rounders — as the Knicks’ latest savior.
Wednesday, before and during the Knicks’ 10-point loss to the Cavaliers, in which they blew a big lead, Anthony again was presented by MSG as the brilliant light at the end of the tunnel that more closely resembles a deep, dark hole.