As much as I've recently admitted clutching on to the ongoing fantasy of the Knicks attracting top players — and I'm still clutching to that fantasy, unless you got something better — wiser commentators than I have asked: Why would these luminaries come to a losing, fucked-up organization?
And the answer that always emerges is the chestnut about how they would become a GOD in New York and so on.
Painful shit.
We might observe (again) that all the illustrious free agents will have plenty of choices. Indeed most of them are already on strong, winning teams. If they stay put, they will be going deep in the playoffs for as long as they like. But there are up-and-coming teams that offer plenty of promise to an NBA superstar. Are the Knicks really among them? A team losing at a historic rate? A chronic loser?
Bad play....and bad mojo.
If we keep losing, by God, we've got a 14% chance to pick Zion! It's insane to salivate at odds so shitty. And yet the young man's name keeps coming up in this forum.
So maybe this is all a way of observing that Knicks fans slather their desires with a coating of reason and analysis. But it's essentially a dreamscape, nourished by hope, prayer....and little else.