LOS ANGELES — David Fizdale won’t get the chance to see Kevin Knox face LeBron James for the first time Friday at Staples Center.
But the Knicks coach hopes not to leave the arena without the 19-year-old Knox and the injured Lakers star sharing a conversation. Fizdale and James are close from their days in Miami — when Fizdale was a Heat assistant coach — and hopes to trade in a favor.
“I’m all right anytime I don’t have to see him,’’ Fizdale initially joked about missing James following the Knicks’ practice Thursday at UCLA.