Thursday night will be the eighth time the New York Knicks draft in the lottery since the first draft of the lottery era back in 1985. That one worked out pretty well. The Knicks won the first overall pick albeit in controversial fashion.
Since then, they’ve been punished with bad karma. They’ve chosen seven players (zero combined All-Star appearances) since then. Nobody’s had a run of draft bad luck like New York. It hasn’t mattered who was in charge of the squad.
Whether it was drafting busts or missing out on stars, the Knicks have had it rough since their initial success.