You ask the Knicks — all of them, but most animatedly Karl-Anthony Towns — and they’re incredulous.
For the guys who’ve been grinding out victories in roughly two-thirds of the games, the idea they haven’t beaten anybody yet is probably offensive.
“Damn, we’re moving the posts like that,” Towns said when reminded of his team’s 0-fer against the NBA’s top-4. “We’re in third!”
Jalen Brunson and the Knicks took a brutal loss on Friday night to the Thunder. Charles Wenzelberg / New York PostThat’s true. Third place in the East, under normal circumstances, is nothing to scoff at. But these Knicks, carrying an unspoken edict of conference-finals-or-bust, weren’t assembled to finish third. And as you watched them get curb-stomped by the Thunder on Friday night — a 126-101 embarrassment that prompted loud Garden boos directed at the home team for the first time this season — the unflattering reality of New York’s record comes into focus.
