The buzzword of the day was “culture,” how it’s supposedly changing around this downtrodden Knicks franchise. Almost every player who spoke to reporters on media day addressed it, some unprompted.
There were many topics covered, from cornerstone Kristaps Porzingis’s rehabilitation from a torn ACL to the development of the team’s young players to the belief the rebuilding Knicks will be better than advertised. But the team’s culture, and how new coach David Fizdale is going about altering it, was the constant theme of the day.