This is going to sound like backhanded praise, but the New York Knicks are bad in a lot of the best ways.
They mostly play hard, they've got some intriguing young talent and there are real signs of progress this year after a seriously dispiriting 2014-15 season. Most of those positives were on display in a 96-86 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday.
New York got off to a nice start, looking loose and fluid in building a 32-18 advantage by the end of the first quarter. Things went a little sideways from there, perhaps because the Knicks lost the advantage of having a sixth defender on the floor midway through the second period:
That's when LeBron James, infamous hater of sleeves, decided his excessive armwear would hamper his shot no longer. He Hulkamania'd those bad boys and, perhaps not coincidentally, played much better afterward.
He'd go on to finish with a game-high 23 points.
So, yes, James and his Cavaliers got the victory. And yes, there was still some pretty high-level Knicking going on. Examples included Carmelo Anthony having zero concept of the shot clock late in the ...
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