MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: HOW THE NEW YORK KNICKS PLAN TO SHAKE THINGS UP THIS OFFSEAASON By: Daniel Connolly

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         Photograph by Corey Sipkin


Welcome to year five of the New York Knickerbockers’ rebuild. It’s been a long half-decade for James Dolan and his Knicks ever since their last playoff appearance in the fabled 54-win 2013 season, amassing a grand total of one appearance south of the 11-seed in the Eastern Conference in that span (including two last-place finishes).

Since that season, six head coaches have come and gone, two general managers were given the axe (as well as long-time president Steve Mills) and three “franchise-saviors,” Carmelo Anthony, Derrick Rose and Kristaps Porzingis, fled for their lives and two of them never even glanced back - more on that later.

Where are they now? Well, things have changed. The cross-town rival Brooklyn Nets are the big cheese in the big apple, with former New York free-agency hopefuls Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving dodging the dumpster-fire in Madison Square Garden and signing max deals to play in Barclays Center last summer. 

Long-time coaching veteran and notorious hard-nose, Tom Thibodeau, has taken the reins on the young-Knicks this year, armed with one of the youngest cores in the NBA and with the eighth pick in the draft this year soon to join them.


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