“Why,” short story maestro Jorge Luis Borges wrote, “take five hundred pages to develop an idea whose oral demonstration fits into a few minutes?”
Got it.
The truest recapitulation of last night’s 123-111 Knicks’ loss to the New Orleans Pelicans would be nothing more than the photo above. Those four mugs signify the emotional experience of watching the game: beginning with Andy Garcia’s professorial bemusement and moving clockwise, there was also guilty pleasure, surprise and, ultimately, disbelief.
The bemusement came from watching a battle of 14-seeds end with one looking so dominant over the other. Recent form seems a truer character sketch than the Pels’ record over the season to date: this win was their eighth in 11 games.