About 28 hours before Monday’s start time, the New York Knicks stunned the Los Angeles Lakers, with an 11-point comeback in the final four minutes and a poster-making block, from Mario Hezonja to LeBron James, to seal a 124-123 win.
Well, fast-forward to the second half of the back-to-back against the Toronto Raptors, and it was all downhill from there.
It was a miserable evening for the Knicks, to put it lightly. With, perhaps, their worst shooting performance of the year, the team with the NBA’s worst record went 32.9 percent from the field and 22.