You can always focus on the worse cases, but we could be Houston too.

Maybe we’d have a few franchise crushing injuries but keep accumulating sold FA players at prices that make sense, pick up a solid player or two in the draft, win a few trades, blow a few deals, but the net of all would be a 60 win team that’s major contender for a ring and trying to win a trade for Butler.

For all the shit we’ve had to endure we have something more to look forward than watch our team pay Blake Griffin and Reggie Jackson 50+ million combined for the next two seasons or rooting for Kemba and his band of overpaid misfits to reach their ceiling, the 8th seed and a quick sweep in the hands of Boston or Toronto.

Welcome to year 2 of “build exclusively through the draft”.

I wonder what the mood would be like if we drafted Jahill Okafor in 2015 and Malik Monk in 2017. We’ve actually done fairly well given we didn’t even have a 2016 pick. However, we are so young, even 3 years from now we could conceivably still be pretty bad and discussing the lottery.

Of course, the other possibility is that KP comes back and has taken a step up, Frank is playing high level defense, hitting 3s at a 37% clip, penetrating and rebounding better with his stronger frame, Knox is among the top 2-3 rookies in the class, and the Knicks add a legitimate all star in the off season. Then next year could be pretty good.