New York Knicks: Newsday News Articles
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With their 17-65 season thankfully over, the Knicks no longer need to voice the pretenses of focusing on the game in front of them and pretending to ignore the much more important summer season.
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The 17-65 season, they could endure. The dealing away of franchise centerpiece Kristaps Porzingis, they could explain. And the embarrassments of the early stages of what they hope is a rebuild could be survived.
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It's not easy to get a feel for a league-wide award column when you cover the Knicks because: (1) Everyone looks good against the Knicks; (2) the best players often sat out much of the game because their teams were up by 30 points early; and (3) you can start considering bench players from those teams for MVP because they look great against the Knicks, too.
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Hidden in plain sight among the Knicks' player development season was the occasional glance around the locker room, wondering just who will be around to see how they developed.
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In his first head-coaching opportunity, David Fizdale burned out quickly. He lasted just over a season in Memphis as he pushed too hard at a veteran team. Relationships soured and it cost him his job just 19 games into a second season.
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As the Knicks finish another season out of the playoffs, this time with the NBA's worst record, there are nearly as many questions about where this will lead as there were victories. Most center around what is next for the rebuild that many thought could not happen in New York, and if it was all worth it.
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The Knicks held Fan Appreciation Night Wednesday as fans crowded in one more time to watch what had been the basketball equivalent of a particularly grisly groundhog day, night after night, loss after loss, the same result. Before the game, rookie Kevin Knox took the microphone at center court and in the spotlight thanked the fans and promised better days ahead.
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The Knicks season came to an end and David Fizdale's mental game of treating this like a playoff Game 7 didn't quite work out. But he does plan on having his young players get a taste of the playoffs even if they didn't come close to making it.
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CHICAGO -- There is still one game left, Wednesday's season finale to be played before the rookie season for Kevin Knox is complete, but the 19-year old has already been handed a blueprint for summer, what the Knicks expected from him this summer and beyond.