The Spurs come to the Garden on Saturday in name only.
The perennial contenders arrive to face the Knicks on an eight-game losing streak, the franchise’s longest in 22 years, just 5-11 overall and two-and-a-half games ahead of the Warriors for the worst record in the Western Conference. Being spurned by Marcus Morris, who verbally agreed to a two-year, $20 million deal with San Antonio before changing his mind and accepting the Knicks’ one-year, $15 million offer, hasn’t helped.
“It’s crazy,” Knicks guard Dennis Smith Jr. said of the Spurs’ struggles following practice Friday. “Thinking about it, hearing it, it’s actually hard to believe.