The Knicks have played terrible basketball all year. Watching them has been tantamount to corporal punishment. But all the pain and torture was supposed to yield at least a good chance of a happy ending.
Though there were no guarantees, the Knicks would at least have the highest-percentage chance of getting the top pick in the NBA draft. It could yield a franchise changing player like Karl-Anthony Towns or Jahlil Okafor, or at the very worst a top-four pick in a top-heavy draft.
But not the Knicks. Nope. They couldn’t even give their fans the maximum amount of hope possible for the month between the end of the regular season and the NBA draft lottery.