Kristaps Porzingis might feel more at home in the environmental unpredictability or unrestrained wackiness of Madison Square Garden than one would think. At 19, he has already seen and experienced worse.
Porzingis, the promising 7-foot-1 Latvian taken fourth by the Knicks in last month’s N.B.A. draft, trained and played as a growing teenager in Spain’s top league, the ACB, with Baloncesto Sevilla, a team that descended into organizational chaos this past season and could be on the brink of collapse.
“Oh, man, that season was a mess,” said Derrick Byars, a teammate of Porzingis’s in 2014-15.