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Ping-Pong Ball Don’t Lie: The Knicks Are Still Cursed

Were you expecting this to go any differently?

The Knicks beat the Sixers in game number 82, which gave them and the Minnesota Timberwolves identical 31-51 records. By virtue of that tie, a “coin flip” was needed to decide who would pick a spot higher in the likely event that neither team would get a top 3 pick in next month’s NBA Draft Lottery.

Let me paint a picture here. What we just witnessed was a painfully awkward lagtastic periscope stream of four individuals blankly staring at ping pong balls with NBA team logos painted on them.