Well that was weird. The Wizards traveled north to face the New York Knicks on the second night of a back-to-back, and for the first 28 minutes took exactly the sort of kick-in-the-teeth beating to be expected when the league’s worst team takes on one of the best.
In the first half, Washington managed just 41 points and trailed by 25. New York opened the third quarter with a burst, ran their lead to 33 and seemed on their way to the kind of massive win that gets all five starters an opportunity to rest the entire fourth quarter.