DENVER — This is how the Knicks finished off their final game of 2018. They were humiliated on the court, verbally assaulted by assistant coaches at halftime and then left just short of a trade demand from Enes Kanter afterward.
And it feels like that might have been good times compared to what awaits at the start of 2019.
The humbling loss in Utah, trailing by as many as 46 points, was a hard-to-watch disaster from start to finish. Actually, the Knicks seemed okay with the finish, content to argue that they had won the second half — not much of an accomplishment since the Jazz, already without two starters for the game, opted to sit Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert for the entire fourth quarter.