CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Knicks have become fairly accustomed to being a team in flux: new players, new roles, new coach, new president (soon enough), and still more than a quarter of the season ahead of them. The only thing that doesn’t seem to change is the result: More losses than victories, more frustration than fulfillment.
Wednesday night in Charlotte, the latest source of uncertainty and, at times, unease was that overcrowded backcourt, which suddenly seemed a little less jam-packed. Frank Ntilikina was out with a nagging groin injury, and interim coach Mike Miller didn’t sound optimistic about what he saw that morning.