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?