The New York Knicks 110-96 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night wasn’t just a bad defeat. Losing to a 15-24 team on your home floor, as sad as it may be, wasn’t even half the story at Madison Square Garden.
The Knicks loss to the Pelicans, their seventh in eight games, a slide that has taken them firmly out of the playoff picture in the East, for the time being, was a summation of everything that makes the Knicks one of the most dysfunctional franchises in professional sports.
The on the court product, which we will discuss later, was terrible like the ejection of star forward Carmelo Anthony and center Kyle O’Quinn.