If consistent winning requires an amalgam of effort, timing and talent, does losing require just as much?
If the Lakers and Celtics, the NBA’s two monoliths, were consistently epic over decades, dynasties spawning dynasties, a product of smart people making smarter moves, then what spawns the stupidity and solemn decades of a forlorn franchise?
The Knicks are the most valuable team in the NBA, the most expensive ticket and the biggest draw. Yet they are woefully inept. They have been. They are. And they will be.
Larry Brown was a magician wherever he went.