News flash: The New York Knicks are not a good basketball team. And New York’s rich and famous and famously rich are taking notice.
The New York Knicks were hammered Saturday at Madison Square Garden by the Charlotte Hornets 110-82.
It extended their single-season, franchise-record losing streak to 15 games and dropped their NBA-worst mark to 5-35 on the season.
But perhaps more importantly for the Knicks, celebrity row at courtside was nearly deserted. Steve Popper of The Record snapped a quick pic to detail this:
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Carmelo Anthony is still out with a sore knee. J.R. Smith—a sideshow all by himself—has been traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers. And the team hasn’t won a game at home since Harry Truman was president (not true, but it seems that way).
Actually, their last win at the Garden was a 91-83 thriller over the almost-as-lousy Philadelphia 76ers on Nov. 22. Saturday’s loss was the Knicks’ 10th straight at home.
New York rolled out a starting lineup Saturday of Jason Smith, Cleanthony Early, Cole Aldrich, Jose Calderon and Tim Hardaway Jr.
The legendary Quincy Acy came off the bench to lead the Knicks with 18 points. Being a power forward, it is natural that he had one rebound.
Rebounding was sort of a thing for the Knicks Saturday anyway. Aldrich had 12. The rest of the guys in the white jerseys had 17. Charlotte had 51.
The Hornets—who haven’t reminded anyone of the showtime Los Angeles Lakers for their offensive prowess, shot 50 percent from the floor.
Look, any way you slice it, the Knicks are truly awful, hideous, wretched and, also, not very good.
Darren Rovell of ESPN says those seats on the Garden’s floor go with $3,300.
Of course, if the home team was down by 45 with a quarter to go, I might think about wanting to beat the traffic, too.
Then again, if a lot of people try to leave early to beat the traffic, aren’t they just creating it themselves?
Something to ponder from an empty courtside seat, I suppose.
H/T Complex Sports
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