The NBA schedules come out tomorrow, and the New York Knicks won’t find a Christmas Day game on their slate of action.
It’s been a bad day for sports in New York. It could deb argued that it’s been a bad decade for New York sports, but at least the Giants and Yankees occasionally do things to remind us that sports are a thing there. As far as the other teams go, the times are tough and the winning is at a minimum — even when you’re the Rangers and actually do win.
No sports franchise in the city has sunk as low into the sinkhole of suck as the Knicks have and the NBA is putting them in a national television timeout.
According to Marc Berman of the New York Post, the Knicks will not be a part of the Christmas Day action for the first t me since 2008.
The Knicks are such a raging dumpster fire that it’s become tired to call them a dumpster fire. Fans usually get angry when you describe their team like that but Knicks fans have gone through the progression of being angry about it agreeing with it to just getting sick of hearing how badly their team sucks.
So far this offseason the Knicks have actually managed to stay above water and get stronger as a team. They drafted Kristaps Porzingis, traded for Jerian ‘Jerkin’ Grant, and have managed to put together a core of players that could grow together. While it’s not a guarantee that things will work out, for the first time in a long time there is hope.
Not having a Christmas Day game is a slap in the face to Knicks fans, but at least there will be a Merry Christmas in New York for the first time in almost a decade.
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