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To the surprise of no one, Knicks fans booed Kevin Knox getting drafted (Video)

By Josh Hill

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 21: Kevin Knox poses with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver after being drafted ninth overall by the New York Knicks during the 2018 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center on June 21, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 21: Kevin Knox poses with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver after being drafted ninth overall by the New York Knicks during the 2018 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center on June 21, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images) /
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Kevin Knox was welcomed to the New York Knicks in the only way fans know how to receive draft picks.

Memo to kids hoping to one day walk across the stage as NBA draft picks: If the Knicks boo you, don’t take it to heart. Knicks fans are a curmudgeon bunch, understandably so, what with the habitual bad luck and constant losing.

The Knicks picked ninth in Thursday’s NBA Draft and picked the wrong guy. Well, at least if you ask fans what they thought. With Mikal Bridges still on the board — a guy many thought New York should draft — the Knicks selected Kentucky forward Kevin Knox.

In true fashion, fans booed.

Knicks fanatic and Oscar-nominated director Spike Lee got behind the pick, even if he was initially hesitant.

On the one hand, it’s a bummer that this kid’s big moment was spoiled by cranky fans booing a guy who has played zero NBA minutes. Kristaps Porzingis was booed, and he’s now the prodigal son of Big Apple basketball.

Chances are if you get booed your career will turn out fine.

That’s the way it works with Knicks fans, who are the Jets fans of the NBA. No matter who they draft, it’s always the wrong guy. We’re at a point where it’s weird if Knicks fans don’t boo a draft pick.

They’re a scarred bunch, Knicks fans are. I sit across from one at work and there isn’t a day that goes by where I’m not sucked into the Renaldo Balkman or Mardy Collins wormhole.

That’s where the boos are coming from. While it seems a bad look, the boos from Knicks fans are actually crying for help that Kevin Knox will save them.

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