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Magic, Knicks set record for sucking in a quarter

By Mike Dyce

Mar 10, 2015; Salt Lake City, UT, USA; New York Knicks guard Alexey Shved (1) dribbles the ball in front of Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum (11) during the first quarter at EnergySolutions Arena. Mandatory Credit: Russ Isabella-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 10, 2015; Salt Lake City, UT, USA; New York Knicks guard Alexey Shved (1) dribbles the ball in front of Utah Jazz guard Dante Exum (11) during the first quarter at EnergySolutions Arena. Mandatory Credit: Russ Isabella-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Orlando Magic and the New York Knicks have set a new record for sucking it up in the NBA in a single quarter.

We’ve seen some pretty bad basketball out of Madison Square Garden and the New York Knicks this season. This time they’ve recruited some friends to set the bar even lower for crappy basketball being played in the NBA.

That’s right… the Knicks and the Orlando Magic combined to score a meager 15 points in the second half of a full length NBA quarter. That is barely over a point a minute or less than a basket per minute.

To put this in perspective, Klay Thompson not only scored twice as much than this in a quarter all by his damn self in a game this season, he nearly tripled that total when he dropped 37 points. A single player scored 37 points in a quarter, and two NBA teams could not combined to sniff that.

Klay Thompson was 13-of-13 in that quarter, and made two free throws. That is 15 buckets combined… 1 for every point the Magic and Knicks combined to put up.

And it isn’t just Klay Thompson making the combined total of the Knicks and Magic look pathetic, there are 148 different instances of a player scoring more than 15 points in a quarter by themselves.

Seriously, on a 148 different instances this season a player has outscored the Magic and Knicks combined quarter total.

What is even more surprising is that while the Knicks have struggled to score for themselves, they’ve learned to at least get buckets for their opponents.

I like to think that this quarter was just two teams committed to tanking trying to out tank one another, stuck in a standoff of sorts. It personally would’ve been more entertaining if they started scoring for the other team, like the Knicks’ Cole Aldrich did above.

But hey, the Knicks aren’t so much about entertaining as being as awful as humanly possible.

We expect this from the Knicks…. but this is just ridiculous Orlando, don’t stoop to their levels.

This is just another reminder of why no one should ever turn on a Knicks basketball in the near future… and by that we mean roughly five years.

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