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Kristaps Porzingis or Jahlil Okafor? Knicks' pick proven right

Neil Best

Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned in 1985. His SportsWatch column debuted on Sept.

The mind wanders during a long, winding afternoon full of overtimes, timeouts, missed free throws, limping stars and general messiness befitting a couple of sub-.500 teams — one of them way below .500.

Which led to the following thought Monday: What if, knowing what we know now, we could travel back to an alternate universe in which the Knicks won the 2015 NBA Draft lottery and owned the No. 1 overall pick in Brooklyn on June 25?