When was the last time a Knicks season carried an expectation of NBA Finals or failure? It\u2019s not a quantifiable concept, but probably the 1990s, a generation ago.<\/p>\n
Now these Knicks are staring at that high bar, and with the season opener less than a week away, we thought it would be a good time to answer six more pressing questions<\/a> (in honor of No. 6 Trent Tucker), before next Wednesday\u2019s tip-off.<\/p>\n Q: What does Malcolm Brogdon\u2019s sudden retirement mean for the rotation and the remaining roster decisions?<\/p>\n Sports+: Well, it solves one potential problem and creates another. First, it means the Knicks don\u2019t need to make a trade to keep either Landry Shamet or Garrison Mathews<\/a>. Before his retirement Wednesday<\/a> \u2014 which, according to a league source, was spurred by a realization from the point guard that he was physically and mentally drained and had lost his hunger \u2014 Brogdon was slated for a roster spot. As a result, the Knicks needed to clear space under the second apron to ink another veteran, either Shamet or Mathews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When was the last time a Knicks season carried an expectation of NBA Finals or failure? It\u2019s not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4776,4777,4778,1555,4205,1556,4779,21,9,11,1104,10,4780,319,428],"class_list":["post-4715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-inside-the-knicks","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-josh-hart","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-malcolm-brogdon","tag-mike-brown","tag-miles-mcbride","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}