ORLANDO — If ever there was a time for Frenchman Frank Ntilikina to seize the moment, it is on this two-game road trip in Orlando and Boston.
Dennis Smith Jr. is in North Carolina mourning the loss of his stepmother and won’t rejoin the club on the trip, according to Knicks coach David Fizdale. Elfrid Patyon has a strained right hamstring and is out indefinitely.
Kadeem Allen, who shined as a two-way G League player late last season, has been riddled since training camp with a sore knee and is also out for a while.