When the woeful New York Knicks surprised everyone by winning two of their last three games of the regular season to move out of the basement and into the second-worst record in the league, it worried an already-paranoid fanbase that hasn’t seen a title in more than 40 years.
How could the same team that threw away any chance of having a good season by dealing away Tyson Chandler for next to nothing not do the right thing and finish with the worst record?
Their worries were confirmed last month when the lowered lottery odds ended up pushing them from the second spot in the draft to fourth, and seemingly out of the competition for the draft’s two biggest prizes—big men Karl-Anthony Towns of Kentucky and Jahlil Okafor of Duke.
For the record, it’s a toss-up over who the better prospect is. Towns can score from the post as well as defend, while Okafor has a much bigger presence in the lane but is not the shot-blocker Towns is.
