Jesus.
The Knicks lost in incredible fashion Thursday afternoon, 101-100 to the Washington Wizards. This was one you had to see to believe, and even then you might not. After falling behind 2-0 New York led nearly wire-to-wire. But the fourth quarter was a nightmare factory, all that much darker for the many bursts of light witnessed in quarters one through three.
Everything started out copacetic. Emmanuel Mudiay was orchestrating like Benjamin Britten, switching up the tempo on a hesitation lay-in and throwing in a cute quicksilver dunk for good measure.
Noah Vonleh kept up his act as the Kevin Knox of rebounding, gobbling six in the first eight minutes, more than he’d haul the rest of the game.