If you drew a graph of New York’s 117-83 defeat to Brooklyn Sunday night, it’d look like a crescendo, or the less-than sign: the top line represents the Nets grabbing an early lead, then steadily blowing the game wider and wider open. The bottom line is the Knicks, failing their way into a near-40 point deficit with metronomic grace. While that kind of bottom lining is likely this season’s bottom line, that didn’t make this spoonful of sugar go down any easier. Jeff Hornacek looked increasingly pissed with each and every timeout. If that does anything for you.
Kristaps Porzingis, who missed the second half with a sore right hip, started alongside Willy Hernangomez, Tim Hardaway Jr.