The keyword of the prelude to the 2018-19 season has been patience for the New York Knicks. An unusual word to use on a team that traded draft picks for quick fixes in previous regimes, it’s an early sign of a perception change.
Knicks president Steve Mills has stood in front of this idea, and even said owner James Dolan supports the slower pace to the organization’s potential rise to the playoffs, and further, in the 2018-19 season and beyond.
How can this patient approach be defined, though, as the Knicks try to live up to it?