WASHINGTON — In a few days, the disappointment will fade — honestly, it will — and reason will take over. In a few days — OK, maybe it’ll take a week — the reality that Zion Williamson is likely headed for Bourbon Street instead of Broadway will stop gnawing at you, and you will allow yourself to chew on three important facts:
1. The Knicks are already better right now than they were at the season’s end, and their future is already brighter, and their roster is already stronger.
2. RJ Barrett isn’t the sensation that his Duke teammate, Williamson, is, but on this day a year ago he was the presumptive No.