What better way to celebrate April Fool’s Day than to schedule a game between New York City’s two professional basketball teams, both of whom have foolishly run their respective franchises into the ground.
The Nets and the Knicks are both headed for Lottery Land as soon as this season mercifully concludes. Emptyhanded, I might add, despite sporting the league’s fourth- and the seventh-worst records, respectively. Trades from prior regimes for ancient (Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce) and underachieving (Andrea Bargnani) players have gifted prime slots to fellow Atlantic Division members Boston and Toronto for this coming June’s NBA draft.