The Knicks reached the three-quarter pole of the basketball season Sunday night, and if they wanted to celebrate the occasion, they couldn’t have asked for a better patsy. Right now, the poor Pelicans are everyone’s favorite Homecoming Game, Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram bedecked in sweaters and strapped to the injured list.
In college, they call these “buy” games, the built-in wins for which major programs shell out good money in order to sprinkle the schedule with gimmes (although Villanova may demand their money back from our Columbia Lions).
How bad was it?
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