No Silver Lining

The NBA's 82-game season is already marathon enough, but when a team starts the season by only winning nine of its first thirty-four games for a winning percentage of .265, which is exactly what the New York Knicks have done, the journey becomes even that much more interminable. In hopes of trying to find a silver lining in the Knicks season, some crumb on which a Knicks fan can nibble on the way to the team's future appearance in the 2008 NBA draft lottery, I thought perhaps there was a possibility that the losses of this season's Knicks team were not as bad as their forty-nine losses of the 2006-07 season. What happened at the end of my search was that I discovered my theory was in a word, erroneous.Not only have this season's Knicks been losing games at a far higher rate than they did last year, in a season when the team should have been improving and preparing themselves for a playoff berth, they have also had worse losses, losing in a more embarrassing manner...