No matter when, how or why it began, the idea of Rajon Rondo coming to the Knicks is a sportswriter’s dream.
It frames the entire dysfunction of a franchise that perfected it.
On paper, Rondo fills the Knicks’ chasm at point guard. Depending on the person or pundit you ask, the Knicks haven’t had a point guard of any heft since Chauncey Billups, at best; Rod Strickland or Stephon Marbury, at worst. But as with everything the Knicks do, the incompetence simmers under the surface.
