The Garden opens for Knicks business Friday with the Knicks’ first preseason home game against the Wizards. The arena may burst with noise because the arena has stayed mostly full amid the depressing six-year playoff drought.
When the Knicks last left the Garden court six months ago, 115-89 losers to the Pistons on April 10, there was belief the club would return in the fall armed with two new stars and a playoff roster.
Friday will not mark Kevin Durant’s Garden debut as many “done-deal’’ observers thought in April. Actually, Durant would not have played Friday even if he had joined the Knicks.