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The trade deadline has passed and nothing has changed for the New York Knicks.
Carmelo Anthony is still in New York. So are Derrick Rose, Courtney Lee, Brandon Jennings and Kyle O’Quinn. Ricky Rubio isn’t bringing his pass-first ways to Madison Square Garden.
The Knicks are what they were yesterday: a scuffling team with a mostly bare cupboard, a franchise with a potential stud but seemingly unsure of how to best move forward.
At 23-34, and with the league’s sixth-worst defense and seventh-worst point differential, the Knicks have little chance to creep back into the playoff picture—even in the lowly Eastern Conference, where they trail the eighth-placed Detroit Pistons by four games.