CLEVELAND — As the Knicks steamrolled the Eastern Conference over the last mind-blowing month, it was easy to forget their backstory as an underdog.
Jalen Brunson is the main character, of course, having fallen to the second round of the 2018 draft and, even years later, having been deemed undeserving by the Mavericks of a four-year, $55 million extension.
There are front-office fumbles in sports, and then there are catastrophic decisions like that one from Mark Cuban.
And if you scroll further down New York’s roster, you’d find similar tales: