Knicks Legend Snubbed From NBA’s All Quarter-Century Teams

The NBA's first quarter of the 21st century are in the books, and despite all of the news that the New York Knicks have given the fans earlier this summer, this portion of offseason's been slow enough that analysts have been given a chance to sit back and rank the best players the league's seen through its first 25 years.

CBS Sports compiled basketball's brightest stars of the 21st century into the classic All-NBA format, finding the best players at their respective position and ordering them into first, second and third teams based on how they stack up against the other greats of the 2000s.

The New York Knicks received no shoutouts in the exercise, which should surprise few fans. The team more or less sat out the vast majority of the century until recent years, wasting away with generally uncompetitive rosters while their big-market contemporaries invested on winning stars.

They've taken a turn in recent years, finally vaulting into contender talks in commencing New York's Jalen Brunson era, but he hasn't been good for nearly long enough to earn consideration to earn a nod on such a prestigious list.

Besides him, the only other Knicks franchise face who deserved a second thought was Carmelo Anthony, but he, too, fell short of the distinction. He played the small forward position for the entirety of his prime, a position loaded with some of the most notable winners of the last decade.

LeBron James' First Team selection was a no-brainer, with Anthony's fellow 2003 NBA Draft classmate still building his legacy entering his record-23rd season, but the former Knicks legend was also passed over by Kevin Durant and Kawhi Leonard for the second and third teams, respectively.