Times Insider Revisits 2015 'Not the Knicks' Series as New York Sits 1 Win From Title
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 12
Times Insider Revisits 2015 'Not the Knicks' Series as New York Sits 1 Win From Title
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 12
Summary
Times Insider looked back at how The New York Times launched its 2015 “Not the Knicks” series after New York fell to 5-32 and lost a 12th straight game.
Jan. 5, 2015 became the breaking point: the Knicks were beaten 105-83 by Memphis and agreed to trade J.R. Smith and Iman Shumpert, moves editors saw as surrendering the season.
Scott Cacciola, then the Knicks beat writer, filed that game story and four days later pivoted to the Emporia State Lady Hornets, the first stop in a road-trip series searching for better basketball.
The retrospective lands with a sharp contrast: 11 years later, the Knicks are one win from a championship despite a 53-year title drought that made the 2014-15 collapse a defining low point.