For the majority of the last two and a half decades, the New York Knicks have been known as a dysfunctional franchise synonymous with a whole bunch of words nobody wants to be attached to, words like losing, failure, embarrassment, leaderless, and directionless, to name a few. But over the last few years, under the direction of Leon Rose and William Wesley, the former laughing stock of the league has embarked on a new era that has managed to wipe off the stench that had followed the franchise around for so long.
Yet the label surrounding this team often stops at “overachievers”.