Coming off a serious knee injury that took a season and a half off his career, Jarrett Jack was brought in by the Knicks to mentor the likes of Frank Ntilikina. Turns out he became a starter, too, when Plan A on the Knicks’ drawing board went up in flames.
But in the franchise record-tying fourth straight season when 50 losses became the norm, Jack became Plan B, then Plan C and if there is a Plan D, he was probably that, too. With the acquisition of Emmanuel Mudiay at the trade deadline and Trey Burke’s emergence from NBA purgatory, Jack became a mentoring spectator.