We are conditioned to believe that a dark cloud sits permanently over Penn Plaza, even on the sunniest of summer days. Two decades of lousy, unwatchable basketball will do that to you. A new century featuring one memorable season — in 2012-13 — and one memorable month — Linsanity — will make you wonder about a team’s karma.
And so it was Monday night, as Knicks fans watched along with everyone else as Kevin Durant limped off the Scotiabank Arena court in obvious agony, the initial diagnosis that arrived hours later — an Achilles injury, severity to be determined — delivering a fresh wave of agony to Knicks fans looking for a messiah – or merely a Messier.