Wright almost certainly will never get the day in Cooperstown his old friend covets for him, one for which he was on a fast track until his back began to bark. July 19 will have to do.
This is what the promise of these Knicks really is. As terrific as they’ve been the past two years, there has been a common theme to much of their success: When Brunson plays an extraordinary game, they generally win.
For it was exactly 51 weeks earlier — Dec. 30, 2023 — when Knicks fans received one of the first stunning bits of news they’d gotten since the Knicks had begun working their way back into the fabric of the city.
This may be hard to believe, given that he’s become the crown prince of New York basketball in almost every way, but it wasn’t even like this for Jalen Brunson.
Maybe the funniest thing about Bill Belichick reaching out to the Jets is the fact that he clearly doesn’t believe any of the 37 or so media jobs he did actually made it to the air.
You know when we’ll know when the Knicks have officially arrived? When we can anoint the new next villain at the Garden, one whose very presence on the floor sours the stomach and boils the blood.
