NY Knicks: In Derrick Rose’s Absence, RJ Barrett Must Have an Increased Role by: Max LoSardo — Fansided: Daily Knicks 3h NY Knicks' point guard Derrick Rose was sorely missed in last night’s 134-101 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks. It’s too soon to judge the Toppin pick, but it’s hard for fans not to wince every time they see the Kings’ Tyrese Haliburton, drafted four spots later, carving up defenses with his smooth shooting and playmaking. If the Knicks finish seventh or eighth in the Eastern Conference after this pandemic-shortened 72-game regular season, their long-suffering fans will want to … Drummond, a two-time All-Star, is no longer But at some point, something’s gonna happen. We know, but we are ever-optimistic. “This,” Sepinwall says, alluding to the current season, “seems a little different.”. This is our year. The Knicks won? There was the 54-win season in 2012–13, which ended with a second-round flameout. Sustainable? Kemp Powers, who wrote and directed the animated film, released in December, is a Brooklyn-raised Knicks fan who was born in 1973, the same year as his team’s last title. The Knicks did something inane? New York Knicks vs Brooklyn Nets: Injury Updates, Predicted Lineups and Starting 5s - March 15th, 2021 | NBA Season 2020-21 by: Evan Tiwari — Sports Keeda 21m City rivals New York Knicks will take on the Brooklyn Nets tonight at the Barclays Center in what is expected to be an enthralling clash between the league's best offense and the league's best defense. The Knicks Wall (@TheKnicksWall) | Twitter. Grammy Awards 2021: Top show moments . The Mavericks’ guard improved his three-point shooting in February. Buckets Over Broadway - New York Knicks Blog. Do Not Sell My Personal Information | LIKE us for news and updates on the New York Knicks! And because Knicks Twitter, rooted as it is in the nation’s media capital, is so heavily populated by blue-checkmarked writers, actors, comedians and creatives with outsize influence and massive followings. The Knicks face Kyrie Irving, James Harden, and the Nets in Brooklyn on Monday night on national television. We're not taking crap from anybody. Maybe it’s the young players developing, as Concepcion says. An emotional Obi Toppin, a Brooklyn native, was thrilled about being picked by the Knicks with the No. And with the Knicks owning the Mavericks’ first-round draft pick (via the Porzingis deal), they’re cheering every Dallas loss. Immanuel Quickley, their rookie point guard, at times looks electric. Alas, neither the banners nor the triumphs hold much weight. And you, dear reader, are going to hear about it from Knicks fans—especially if you, dear reader, spend any time at all perusing Knicks Twitter, where Randle is royalty, Quickley’s floaters are high art and every Knicks victory is venerated as if it were Game 7 of the Finals. In this NBA fever dream, recent lottery picks Kevin Knox and Frank Ntilikina are starters, Barrett’s an all-star and Obi Toppin (the No. 35K likes. There was the momentary rush of Amar’e Stoudemire declaring, “The Knicks are back,” and leading a brief renaissance before his knees gave out. All Rights Reserved. They made modest additions—Rivers, Alec Burks, Taj Gibson, Nerlens Noel—and used their salary-cap room to first acquire, then flip, veteran big man Ed Davis, netting three second-round picks in the two deals. For Sepinwall, it got bad enough, after Dolan bounced Lin, that he briefly renounced his Knicks fandom in an angry Tumblr screed. And, you know, so far we have ample evidence in every previous regime that that was not the case. Listen to Episode 37 of ‘Big Apple Buckets’: Knicks Need Another Shooter feat. It’s like a cult. (“That’s an NBA championship,” says Desus. 306 likes. Like, I'll compare Randle to LeBron, no problem—and I sincerely will believe it for like five minutes. It’s been a long time since Patrick Ewing owned the Garden paint, eons since Walt Frazier and Bill Bradley raised real championship banners to the real Garden rafters. Posted by 1 day ago. Enjoyed the Pat Riley era. Under the gravelly guidance of new coach Tom Thibodeau, everyone looks a little sharper, more focused, more organized. If you make a request through They surprise. Mero was sold with a single barked profanity during a game early this season, when the coach called a timeout, pulled his mask down and bellowed, “What the f---? You will hear about it because Knicks fans, like the bustling metropolis they represent, are bigger, bolder, louder and brasher than any other NBA clique. “Knicks Twitter is kind of like a digital fever dream, where it's like, The Knicks are great! Sure, the feats are modest and the banners are photoshopped, but the joy and the optimism (albeit a pointedly wry optimism) is quite real. James bought an ownership stake in the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday. The so-called "female tendencies" of a player on the Memphis Grizzlies had the Knicks acting like macho men at the end of a game they lost by 21 points. It’s the sort of creative use of cap space that rival franchises have employed for years, but which had been foreign to prior Knicks regimes. “Austin Rivers is legitimately my favorite Knick right now,” says Concepcion, “which is a shocking development for me.”, Rivers amped up the lovefest after the Utah win, declaring this a new Knicks era while acknowledging the hard work yet to be done. It’s like a cult. This team looks hungry.”. New York's players were upset with how Jae Crowder was playing the game . PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tobias Harris scored 30 points, Seth Curry had 20 and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the New York Knicks 99-96 on Tuesday night for … !” the Jan. 2 banner exulted. Knicks Have Explored Possibility of Adding Andre Drummond. Terms of Use | NBA Privacy Center | Twitter; Instagram; New York Knicks. Weston McKennie and Matthew Hoppe are among those not included, while a number of players will return to their clubs after the first of two matches. Brooklyn, New York, United States About Blog The Knick of Time is a blog and podcast dedicated to the Knicks and their fans. Daily Knicks. This site is operated jointly by NBA and WarnerMedia. “I'm pumped for the Knicks,” says Yang, who’s running to be the city’s mayor. Is the progress real? They’ve changed front-office leadership eight times, also a league-high, including two separate stints by Steve Mills, who was fired in February 2020. Copyright © 2021 NBA Media Ventures, LLC. And so now Knicks fans, we feel reinvigorated this year. The so-called “female tendencies” of a player on the Memphis Grizzlies had the New York Knicks acting like macho men at the end of a game they lost by more than … “I'm going to enjoy it for as long as it lasts,” says Sepinwall. “You've got to have a little bit of a sense of humor about it,” says Powers. Porzingis quickly grew disillusioned by the mayhem and was shipped to the Mavericks. (Sepinwall says he’s “starting to talk myself into the idea of him as a long-term piece, which doesn't feel healthy to me.”) Then there’s Quickley, a late-first-round gem who has mesmerized and tantalized fans with his crafty pick-and-roll game, his heads-up playmaking and his silky midrange floater. “Knicks somehow beat the s--- out of the Bucks,” proclaimed the Dec. 27 banner, a dashed-off digital replica of the real thing. “Julius Randle hit a shot, and I saw like five tweets that just said, Julius Randle is better than [Kevin Durant],” says Desus. 504 talking about this. Build your custom FanSided Daily email newsletter with news and analysis on New York Knicks and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more. They win games they’re expected to lose. Julius Randle, their journeyman forward, is playing like an All-Star. He made an early mark by exploding for 14 straight fourth-quarter points in a Jan. 6 upset of the Jazz, prompting Desus to propose renaming the Hudson River in his honor. The new GM will fix this. “We come up with our own little lies that we tell ourselves to justify still being a Knicks fan,” says Desus, “but the team looks different this year. This time is different. !” at the nearest referee, loudly enough that TV microphones picked it up in the near-empty arena. So, whatever.”, In that sense, Knicks fandom is like being in any family: If the joke comes from an outsider, it’s taken as an assault on the whole tribe; if the same quip comes from one of your own, well, that’s just what families do. Yet on balance, the Knicks’ latest braintrust, led by team president Leon Rose, is winning praise for not only the moves they’ve made, but those they haven’t. To be a Knicks fan is to endure endless taunts, to see your team dismissed as “a windshield smear,” to have your pain mocked in a Pixar movie, to get dissed by a smack-talking Bulls fan who once resided in the White House. Jason Concepcion, the creator and star of The Ringer’s ultra-popular (and, after his departure for Crooked Media, now-defunct) NBA Desktop, will dutifully smack his beloved team for its stupidity. So, while Knicks Twitter was thriving long before a pandemic changed our lives, it’s become ever more vital now. If you make a request through the WarnerMedia Privacy Center, Respectable, even. There was the trade for Anthony, a true superstar—though the deal cost the Knicks so many young players and picks that they never could build a contender around him. The Knicks looked lost. Knicks fans are relishing the relevance. With that, Yang lets out a nervous chuckle that would surely feel familiar to every Knicks fan scarred by the past two decades. He’s still just 22. Sepinwall, for one, can recall from memory every Knicks draft misfire—Knox over Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Ntilikina over Donovan Mitchell—and says, with a mix of hope and dread, “We'll see if Toppin vs. Haliburton is another one.”. Then I come back to reality.”, Desus often leads his tweets with an acronym, YKTMFKV (“you know the motherf------ Knick vibe,” he laughs), which he does his best here to explain: “[You get] your joy out of making other people upset that you’re a happy Knicks fan. Frequency 2 posts / week Blog theknickoftimeshow.com Twitter followers 2K ⋅ Domain Authority 14 ⓘ ⋅ View Latest Posts ⋅ Get Email Contact. the NBA Privacy Center, it will apply to data controlled independently by the NBA. Almost everyone interviewed for this story looked back lovingly on a certain several weeks in 2012. www.DailyKnicks.com The #1 site for Die-Hard Knicks Fans! As of this writing, the Knicks are 11–15, occupying ninth place in the Eastern Conference. “The Super Bowl is tomorrow and the Knicks are the 6-seed today,” noted the Feb. 6 banner. And yet this promising start for New York has even him intrigued. The new kid’s gonna be a star. On any given night, this incisive (or derisive) Knicks commentary could be coming from actors Ben Stiller and Michael Rapaport; writer Brian Koppelman (who’s responsible for Billions and Rounders); directors Josh and Benny Safdie (Uncut Gems); former presidential candidate Andrew Yang; ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith; or any of a litany of other New York-based writers who bleed blue and orange—because, well, bleeding and pain is part of being a Knicks fan. Alas, Knox still looks lost, Ntilikina is injured, Barrett is so far merely solid and Toppin has been either injured or just stuck behind Randle in the frontcourt rotation. Manage Preferences, Post Game Report presented by Major Energy, Presenting Partner of the New York Knicks, GET ON THE PRIORITY LIST FOR KNICKS TICKETS, Place Your Deposit for the 2020-21 Season, Tickets Are Now Available for Our Games on Mar. Asked how he felt, Sepinwall responded, “Joy”—but it sounded more like a question. Which begs the question: Is this new Knicks era actually, you know, legitimate? Buckets Over Broadway is a New York Knicks blog run through the FanSided network. "In the next five years [baseball will] either be the national pastime or a niche sport.". The month is March, meaning the NY Knicks are getting closer and close to the trade deadline. Jonathan Macri (@JCMacriNBA) | Twitter. Daily Knicks (@DailyKnicksFS) | Twitter. Of course, Knicks fans in the last 20 years have had their hopes crushed many times over. Westchester Knicks (@wcknicks) | Twitter. fake banners to commemorate every apparent sign of progress, Melo has got an M. Bison hat in the locker room. … No, we are going to take our shirts off and we're going to be proud to be Knicks fans.”. Comedians Desus and Mero will be crowing, possibly profanely and in ALL CAPS. It’s psychological warfare, New York style. We got former presidents dunking on us. The new coach has the answers. 25, and Mar. The deadline for teams to withdraw from the 2021 men's NCAA tournament passed on Wednesday morning. LIKE us for news and updates on the New York Knicks! All rights reserved. | “You definitely were not born the last time y’all won [a title],” Barack Obama, with a wicked grin, told Desus and Mero in December. Enjoyed Allan Houston's shot to knock the Heat out [in 1999]. “I had to retweet it, because that's what you do as Knicks Twitter. “The baseline emotion for Knicks Twitter is cynicism,” says Desus Nice, the Bronx-born comedian and co-star of Showtime’s Desus & Mero. “That's always a danger.”. Quickley has mesmerized and tantalized fans with his crafty pick-and-roll game, his heads-up playmaking and his silky midrange floater. And though their offense is mired in the bottom third of the league, there’s promise across the roster. What do you do when Pixar and an ex-U.S. president punch down? Like, the fact that you, as a Knicks fan, are happy with your life—that upsets Net fans and it upsets Lakers fans and it upsets Heat fans.”. In New York, 54 wins will do that.) 6. NEW YORK KNICKS (@nyknicks) | Twitter. NEW YORK KNICKS on Twitter: "Back after the All-Star break.… "Jr. Knicks (@juniorknicks) | Twitter. The record is indisputable. And so when Obama strafed the Knicks with the timing and flair of a seasoned stand-up comic, Desus and Mero could only laugh and concede the point. The Knicks rank fifth in the league in defensive efficiency, a clear reflection of Thibodeau’s influence, and a massive leap from last season, when they finished 23rd. They haven’t made the postseason since 2013, the NBA’s third-longest active drought, behind the Kings and Suns. Over the last two decades, the Knicks have collected more head coaches (a league-high 11) than playoff wins (nine). “In the back of your mind, that Knicks-fan cynicism is lurking, and it’s like, Listen, it's looking good now. NY Knicks: 3 possible competitors for Victor Oladipo - Daily Knicks - Daily Knicks - A New York Knicks Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and More. There is considerable pride in that team heritage, but pain in the present, which helps explain how that Knicks joke ended up in Soul. Key matchups, top prospects, sleepers and more to watch in this year's Men's NCAA tournament. “I’m pumped for New York; I’m pumped for fans. It’s happened to Isiah Thomas and Larry Brown, Mike D’Antoni and Phil Jackson, Carmelo Anthony and Kristaps Porzingis and, well, too many others to name. The Brooklyn Nets are a great basketball team, the New York Knicks are a good basketball team. Knicks fans have even fallen for Austin Rivers, the feisty, well-traveled guard whose palpable swagger sometimes exceeds his shot-making ability, like a modern-day John Starks. Anthony was alienated by the front office and ultimately traded to the Thunder. 3 pick who’s showing glimpses of progress after a lackluster rookie season. “There's got to be some level of magical thinking going on in order to stay a Knicks fan after the last 20 years,” says Sepinwall. For now, it’s enough that New York seems competent and competitive, part of the NBA conversation for something other than its fans’ being banished or a star’s demanding a trade. Getting Quickley with the 25th pick looks like a steal. And you know, you got that little hope. It should be noted that Sepinwall made this observation back when the Knicks were 5-3, fresh off victories over the Hawks and Jazz, inspiring ever-higher degrees of confidence among the base. Throughout, every 12 to 18 months, a new designated savior arrives—a charismatic GM, a marquee coach, a glitzy rookie, a veteran star—only to be fired or traded or dismissed, ultimately departing a diminished figure. Privacy Act, please use the links below to visit each company’s privacy center. We got Pixar movies dumping on us. They are not even a sure bet to make the playoffs. Your privacy is safe with us. But I still have an arm’s-length relationship with the Knicks because, like, I just couldn't handle it anymore. In Soul, a mischievous celestial being boasts about “messing with this team for decades,” as an animated Knicks player badly blows a dunk, punctuated by the voice of ESPN’s Doris Burke declaring, “And the Knicks lose another one!” Some Knicks fans, weary of their team being a punch line, howled in protest, prompting Powers to tweet the ultimate defense: “I am a diehard, lifelong Knicks fan.”, Thereon, “it was overwhelmingly positive from Knicks fans,” Powers says of the response. And Mitchell Robinson, the pogo-stick center, is fouling less, rebounding more and defending with verve. And, I will say, not being a fan over the last number of years has been generally a really positive thing for my mental health.”. Credit, too, Thibodeau, the hard-driving, raspy-voiced coaching curmudgeon, who demands full effort and accountability, and whose Knicks pedigree (as a former assistant to Jeff Van Gundy) and edgy New York persona instantly endeared him to fans. Home of the #1 Knicks podcast, it is a hub for all things Knickerbocker. In normal times, this group enabling would happen at the corner barbershop or the neighborhood bar. it will apply to data controlled jointly by the NBA and WarnerMedia as well as other data controlled by WarnerMedia. Knicks fans will love quote from Julius Randle by Steven Kubitza. Maybe it’s the eighth seed. Daily Knicks on Twitter: “Dennis Smith Jr. arrived in New York weeks before formal individual workouts began to work with Tom Thibodeau and the coaching staff, per @IanBegley” Close. Julius RandleCharles Wenzelberg / New York Julius Randle lost a chance to tie the game for the Knicks on Monday. “The Ewing years were great for me. ", © 2021 ABG-SI LLC. All sports fandom is emotional and inherently irrational, requiring ample doses of wishful thinking. “It’s January and the Knicks don’t have a losing record!!!! Maybe it’s getting that Mavs pick. … Like, We tried. The Knicks finished the loss shooting 40.2 percent overall and 35.7 percent from deep. Well, everyone except Nets and Knicks … And another on Jan. 2, Jan. 3, Jan. 4, Jan. 6 and Jan. 19. “We’re having a parade.”) Maybe it’s making the play-in tournament. The Knicks didn’t splurge on Gordon Hayward in free agency, or trade all their assets for a pricy, aging vet, like Chris Paul or Russell Westbrook. There's always that existential dread.”. It was all ephemeral, though, every glimpse of glory ultimately sabotaged from within. No portion of NBA.com may be duplicated, redistributed or manipulated in any form. “There were, of course, a few who were just like, Go f--- yourself—you know, which, it's Knicks fans! (He was back a year later. 8 pick in the 2020 NBA Draft on Wednesday … SPORTS ILLUSTRATED is a registered trademark of ABG-SI LLC. 8 pick in 2020) is making a run at Rookie of the Year. “I hope it's real,” says Concepcion, somehow conveying both hope and dread. www.DailyKnicks.com The #1 site for Die-Hard Knicks Fans! There was Linsanity, that magical thrill ride in ’11, when Jeremy Lin burst into stardom and electrified the city. 4 hours ago. “I was like, He's a New Yorker,” says Mero. “People thought that was funny,” says Mero. New York has the NBA’s worst winning percentage since '00, coinciding with Dolan’s reign. RJ Barrett continues his recent string of strong play scoring 21 points in the Knicks' 103-94 loss to the Kings on Friday night. Stephen King is asking for grammar help on Twitter . It was placed next to the one that reads 1972–73 WORLD CHAMPIONS. But something good is happening. 18, Mar. “He’s officially a New Yorker. “Because it's like, yo, we know, we understand what the Knicks are. As one long-suffering superfan says: "YKTMFKV! New York falls to .500 on the season, holding a 20-20 record. They’re side-eying the star-studded Nets, waiting for them to collapse under the weight of their egos. Accessibility and Closed Caption | You're terrorists on the timeline, and you make people upset. Dolan refused to pay Lin, who left for the Rockets. Nets hang on to beat Knicks in wild finish . Lin is speaking out following three Atlanta spa shootings that left eight people dead, including six Asian women. Meaningfully so. “It's not just loyalty and it's not just masochism; there has to be a part of you that year after year is able to convince yourself, O.K., now we're turning the corner, now we're turning the corner, now we're turning the corner. Yang, the former Democratic presidential candidate, a self-described “very hardcore Knicks fan” in the 1990s, dumped the team, too, after the Lin saga (“broke my heart,” he says), redirecting his passion to the Nets while becoming a vocal Dolan critic. More pissed. They dreamed of Cade Cunningham in orange and blue. 23, Mar. And Tommy Beer, a staff writer for Forbes, will be pumping out fake banners to commemorate every apparent sign of progress, no matter how trivial the accomplishment. Knicks 76ers Basketball 0 comment Tobias Harris had 30 points and Seth Curry 20 as the Philadephia 76ers powered home to beat the New York Knicks 99-96 in an NBA thriller on Tuesday night. The Knicks did something wonderful? A "Johnathan Daly" Twitter account showed up Wednesday and sent 70 tweets, with most of those replies praising James Dolan and the Knicks. The Knicks lost? So what is success in the near term? The sheer mass of celebratory tapestries would be enough to make the Garden girders sag … if they were in fact embroidered cloth, rather than mere pixels on a computer screen. No, they are not a great team. “I've literally got to live in a world, my entire life, in which the Knicks have never been champions,” says Kemp, who now lives in Los Angeles, surrounded by preening Lakers fans. “And that's much different than in the past,” says Desus. Another banner went up on Dec. 28. A Knicks banner was raised to the rafters on Dec. 27, enshrining a glorious achievement. NBA Twitter star Rob Perez, the ubiquitous @WorldWideWob, will be pumping it out to his 660,000 followers. Says Desus: “It's as close to what it felt like being at Madison Square Garden back when the Knicks were good in the ’90s or the ’80s.”. It’s a stubbornly, irrationally hopeful Twitter tribe—but also an acerbic, funny, fatalistic, self-aware and self-deprecating one. “My fear, especially with the winning, is that James Dolan will be like ‘Ooh! And Barrett, a former No. (“Manna from heaven,” says Mero.) “Knicks Twitter is kind of like a digital fever dream, where it's like, The Knicks are great! To roll with New York takes a bit of brazen, blind enthusiasm, especially for a certain loud, blue-checkmarked section of the base. John Wallace, Bill Pidto - The New York City Daily Post 3 Sharpshooters the NY Knicks Should Target at the Trade Deadline. 99. And yet, there’s reason to believe that things are, at long last, different. Under Thibodeau, everyone looks a little sharper, more focused, more organized. Tonight is a new chapter in the rivalry. Fans like Concepcion and Sepinwall started this season figuring the Knicks would be awful, positioning the team for a high pick in the talent-rich 2022 draft. The Knicks promptly lost their next five games, prompting the critic to question the wisdom of this entire conversation, and its karmic implications. Different, as in: better, more promising, perhaps even sustainable. Latest stories including team news, game recaps, and writer features. Now they find themselves rooting for a playoff appearance, draft odds be damned. Or maybe, as Mero suggests, the season is a win “as long as the Nets don't get a championship.” YKTMFKV. Lawmakers sink … Or is this just the latest cruel tease in a 20-year psychodrama? They compete consistently. Knicks fandom, though, requires a higher level of faith, approaching willful self-delusion. Alan Sepinwall, the chief TV critic for Rolling Stone, will be kvetching. We’re a move away!’ ” and decide to trade all the youth and draft picks for a veteran, says Concepcion. How Does Former MVP Derrick Rose Fit in with Thibodeau's Knicks? New York has the NBA’s worst winning percentage (.400) since 2000, coinciding with James L. Dolan’s reign as owner, and fans have witnessed a staggering 980 defeats in that time. The jabs, inevitable. WarnerMedia Privacy Center | SI "The Knicks have explored the possibility of adding Cavaliers center Andre Drummond and potentially offering him a multiyear deal as a free agent, if he is bought out, according to The Athletic's Shams Charania. More Knicks at Daily Knicks. But for the past 20 years, it has been an embarrassing team to be devoted to.”. Follow SportSpyder on Twitter. RSS Feed ; Daily Knicks. “Knicks fans, we’re always waiting for the other shoe to drop,” says Mero. NBA New York Knicks (@thenyknicks) | Twitter . Which is why, even now, Knicks realists find themselves bracing for the next pratfall, the next headline grab, the next impulse buy. Knicks Trade Rumors: 3 reasons Lonzo Ball is a perfect fit by: Adam Kester — Fansided: Daily Knicks 21h The New York Knicks have been brought up in more than a few trade rumors over the last month. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. NEW YORK (AP) — Kyrie Irving scored 34 points, James Harden welcomed himself to New York's basketball rivalry with his 10th triple-double of the season, and the Brooklyn Nets beat the Knicks … There was Porzingis, the so-called unicorn from Latvia, taken with the fourth pick in ’15, who made New Yorkers swoon with his rare combination of size, shooting and shot-blocking. Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner has become a subject of interest for several NBA teams ahead of the March 25 trade deadline.The New York Knicks… “But as Knicks fans, yo, that was a bit excessive, Obama. We got Nets fans trying to say that this is their city now. “Sometimes, after a four-game losing streak, you’d see Raymond Felton just sighing, and Melo has got an M. Bison hat in the locker room, looking frustrated. 21, Mar. The Knicks of 2020–21 play defense. Scoring (22.3 ppg), rebounds (10.9) and assists (5.8): Randle leads the MSG set in all three. 29, Highlights: RJ Barrett (17 Points) | Knicks @ 76ers, Highlights: Alec Burks (19 Points) | Knicks @ 76ers, Highlights: Julius Randle (19 PTS / 15 REB) | Knicks @ 76ers. And that's all the Knicks fans need, is just a little bit of hope.”. To opt out of the sale of your personal information as permitted by the California Consumer For Desus, the past decade is summed up by a slumped, frustrated Melo. There is nothing else quite like it. The New York Knickerbockers—for years the NBA’s most hapless franchise, a perpetual font of dysfunction and controversy, the butt of a thousand late-night jokes—suddenly appear, well, competent. RJ Barrett, their second-year swingman, is, um, evolving. Hope begins with Randle, a legitimate All-Star candidate who’s averaging career bests in scoring, rebounds and assists. “And then, when they turn bad again, that is when I will dip into my huge file of gifs of tanks, rolling through streets, and start posting them on Twitter and watching the Cade Cunningham highlights again.”.