Knicks rookie point guard Frank Ntilikina couldn’t legally enjoy a beer Wednesday in Boston as he sat in the stands at TD Garden watching Game 5 of Celtics-Cavaliers with a small team contingent. In fact, Ntilikina, 19, won’t be able to do that until the 2020 Eastern Conference Finals — he’s 14 months from turning 21.
Ntilikina sat to the left of new coach David Fizdale. Point guard Emmanuel Mudiay, 22, sat to Fizdale’s right. Shooting guard Damyean Dotson, 24, the 2017 second-round pick who is part of the future, was next to Mudiay.
In seeing the Knicks’ young trio bonding with Fizdale, it could not have been clearer.