As a practical basketball matter, let’s go back to the 2015 NBA draft, when we might have heard, “With the fourth overall selection, the Knicks select 7-foot-3 Kristaps Porzingis.”
“Wow! Tell us more.”
“Well, he has one specialty.”
“What’s that?”
“Outside shooting.”
Perhaps it has something to do — or a lot to do — with the presence of Jim Dolan, but practical basketball solutions to issues that always swirl within and around the Knicks are always the first to be sacrificed to secondary considerations, especially media debates.
In the case of 21-year-old, two-year NBA vet Porzingis, he and his brother/adviser apparently feel that the good and welfare of his career lies in backing frequent malcontent Carmelo Anthony, while defying the minimal wishes of Knicks’ management to show up for a season’s end chat.