James Dolan

I have to go to bed early now.

That's fine.

The follow-up question would be, okay, Evan, who'd they lose to?

The Charlotte Hornets.

So we can't act like slumps in January are exclusive to the Knicks or this proves there's something flawed with the team.

They suck right now.

I'm not going to defend them.

And we can go through all the aspects of their suckiness right now.

But over the course of a long NBA season where, yes, now we have an NBA Cup mixed in the middle.

I can't look at it and say, ah, a bunch of frauds.

Again, the Thunder are 6-6 in their last 12, and they lost by 27 to the Hornets last night.

Do you think they're panicking in Oklahoma City?

No, not at all.

I don't know what they're talking about in Oklahoma City, actually.

Probably the Sooners and what's going on with the portal.

Here's the thing, though, with the Knicks, Evan.

We're not used to this because the Tom Thibodeau Knicks kept their pedal to the metal, and they owned January and February.

Here we go.

No, no, no, but it's true.

And this is what always we would argue about and that would come back to haunt the Knicks when they ran out of gas in the playoffs.