No one was calling the New York Knicks a super team before the start of the 2012-13 season. In fact, as usual, the Knicks were being ridiculed for their offseason moves.
The Knicks signed players who were on the verge of retirement, and as a result, were the butt of everyone’s jokes.
At Bill Russell‘s Mentor’s Champions Golf Challenge in the summer of 2012, Charles Barkley was asked about the Knicks’ additions. Per Mark Herrmann of Newsday:
“I like Marcus Camby,” he said.