“No negativity,” said Walt Frazier, dressed in his Christmas best as he rode up a Madison Square Garden elevator before the Knicks’ holiday matinee on Monday. “It seems like everyone genuinely likes each other.”
That is surely significant progress for the Knicks, even if there are some disturbing similarities between where they are now and where they stood during the 2016 holiday season.
Back then, the Knicks were bouncing around the playoff cutoff line as they moved toward the halfway point of the season. A year later, the same situation applies, but with the Knicks confronting a schedule that will have them play 14 of their next 17 games on the road.