Knicks can look across town to see how injuries can unglue a season
NY Post
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Knicks didn’t necessarily need the reminder of just how fragile a good thing can be in the NBA, and they certainly didn’t want this firsthand account of just how brittle the delicate tapestry of a season can be. But that’s what they’ve gotten. That’s what they take into the All-Star break.
Tom Thibodeau didn’t ask your humble one-legged columnist if he could give him 10 solid minutes Wednesday night for the Knicks’ game with the Magic if the 10-day contract paperwork could get faxed to the Kia Center on time. But he sure seemed like he might be on the verge of it.
And, relative to the rest of the roster, your humble one-legged columnist was in reasonably good health.
“You take what the season gives you,” he said.
It’s surreal to recall how it has gotten to this. Just eight days earlier the Knicks had moved a season-high 15 games over .500, hammering the Grizzlies 123-113 and extending a scalding-hot stretch of 15 wins in 18 games. Two days later, they completed a deal to add Alec Burks and Bojan Bogdanovic. They had passed the 76ers, caught the Bucks, were a few percentage points behind the Cavs for No. 2 in the East.
Now, a week later, they are a team more in need of the coming eight-day All-Star sabbatical than just about any team has ever been. Donte DiVincenzo and Bogdanovic joined the swollen pile of inactives in front of the Magic game, and the Knicks had only nine healthy bodies ready to go, including two G-League call-ups.
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