It is easy to choose despair, if that’s how you’re inclined, because things have gone so sideways for the Knicks the past few weeks, because every day has brought a fresh body blow. The coach has been fired. The star player is hobbled. The franchise rookie has hit a wall. And when you look around the league …
Well, that’s the hardest part in many ways. It’s not just the quicksand the Knicks have found themselves in, it’s the competition. It’s the Warriors and the Spurs and the Thunder out West. It’s that the East is no longer a top-heavy laughingstock, with nine teams at .