The Knicks have made it to Opening Night, prepared to essentially run it back from last season without completing the elusive splashy improvements they had hoped to make when the summer began.
The high-end trade market still hasn’t materialized to their liking, so the Knicks enter Wednesday’s season opener against the Celtics (7 p.m. ET, ESPN) at the Garden with only one significant alteration to their rotation — deleting former first-round pick Obi Toppin and adding another member to their vaunted Villanova crew in proven floor spacer Donte DiVincenzo.
Knicks fans have been waiting for years, through multiple front-office regimes, to land a true superstar, but team president Leon Rose again fell short in that pursuit over the past few months since his team was bounced in the second round of the playoffs by the Heat.
That wait will continue after multi[ple All-Star dominoes fell — namely Bradley Beal to the Suns and Damian Lillard to the Bucks, while Jrue Holiday was routed from Milwaukee to Portland and then to the Celtics.
