Dear Basketball:
Overtime turned into a painful reality for the Knicks and rookie Kristaps Porzingis.
Kobe Bryant wrote an online poem Sunday entitled “Dear Basketball’’ to announce he was saying goodbye to the sport after the season.
For nearly 3 ½ quarters Sunday, the Knicks were weaving a more pleasant fairy tale. The club soldiered on without an ill Carmelo Anthony and were whipping the Rockets by 14 points midway through the fourth quarter minus their lone All-Star.
Anthony had called it “a must-win,” but it turned into an unhappy ending, a choke job, their fourth straight loss and one very humbling moment for Porzingis, who got muscled out of the way and dunked on by center Dwight Howard on the first possession of overtime that paved the way for a 116-111 Rockets’ come-from-behind victory.