Months of dreaming were destroyed in minutes.
Nine years after coming nowhere close to landing LeBron James — and 2010’s other A-list free agents — the Knicks again cleared cap space for two max-salary players, then watched another acclaimed crop of All-Stars bypass the long-suffering franchise.
Even worse was knowing that Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving wanted to be in New York, but wanted to be Nets.
“It doesn’t change anything. It’s all about what you have in house and I think we have a very solid team,” former Knicks guard John Starks said of Brooklyn’s signings at a press event Thursday at Madison Square Garden.