Knicks fans seemed to have made a point this season: to suffer and to suffer. “We started the year by telling ourselves that we had to take our troubles patiently, that it was already good to have a change in management”, tells Anthony Donaghue, a franchise subscriber who has not seen the play-offs since 2013. But, divine surprise, the New York team finally signs a very good start to the season. Currently fifth in the Eastern Conference (17v – 17d), the team points far from the slums experienced in the past twenty years – with the worst record of the entire NBA over time. A succession of failures that cost the former president, Steve Mills, his post, ousted in February 2020 and replaced by the ex-agent, Leon Rose.
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