MILWAUKEE — Kyle O’Quinn grew up in Queens, presumably too late to fully appreciate what the 1990s were all about for the Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
He was born in 1990, which means he was just developing a sense of professional basketball after the hard-hat Knicks of that decade had hit their prime.
Charles Oakley — name mean anything to you?
It turns out O’Quinn is an astute historian but not in the most predictable way. Of Oakley, the sturdy enforcer who typically had Patrick Ewing’s back, he said: “He went to a historically black college — you know what I’m saying?