Karl-Anthony Towns QUESTIONABLE Friday vs Nets –– left knee contusion

Jalen Brunson PROBABLE –– sprained right ankle

Deuce McBride QUESTIONABLE –– left knee inflammation

Cam Payne PROBABLE –– strained left hamstring

Oh look, the most predictable outcome in the world.

Get ready for the wheels to come right off over the next few games. If all these guys are out we’re starting Kolek/Bridges/Hart/OG/Sims!

I guess Bridges plays backup PG? 7-man rotation with Ryan and Huk?

I’m predicting we are 7-12 by December 1. At what point does a teardown become reasonable?

@NBA_NewYork:

Karl-Anthony Towns QUESTIONABLE Friday vs Nets –– left knee contusion

Jalen Brunson PROBABLE –– sprained right ankle

Deuce McBride QUESTIONABLE –– left knee inflammation

Cam Payne PROBABLE –– strained left hamstring

Oh dear…

I’d also like to add that I hate the “play the same team twice in a row” thing Silver christened. I know it helps lower the league’s carbon footprint or whatever, but it’s a boring, bad idea!

While it doesn’t show up directly on the current roster, they hideously dissipated assets for Mikal. What does show up on the current roster is the once-removed philosophy that led to the hideous asset dissipation — that “we shouldn’t draft but instead hoard picks for a superstar.” Questionable philosophy standing alone, awful philosophy when the “superstar” the hoarded picks were used for isn’t even close to being a superstar.

OG is certainly a lesser problem than the 2020-24 clownshow routine of not drafting, trading all the young players who were drafted, and then flipping all the picks for a mid-level player.

I mean, that’s certainly true — but so what? If OG was on a team with a really deep bench with a number of usage creators, his issues wouldn’t be so pronounced. But he’s not. Again — so what?

Ranking them seems less important than counting them.