Isn't this just a "version" of mediocrity "hell"?
Knicks get Okafor and the Celtics are just such a "good" lower tier team we get Olynyk and Smart.
This draft jag is for the birds. Hey let's get Phil Jackson and the NY market the best player in the draft. Why not just give them the best player and skip the formalities?
Isiah Thomas never got the Knicks nothing in the post season, nothing ever. So now big Phil is here, they get rewarded for putting Melo on IR.
Thus, the only way to compete with 76'ers, Nix, T pups, Magic and other assorted mismanaged floppers is to tell Boston Celtics fans "sorry guys we can't win more than 56 games over the next THREE seasons if we want a center and a power forward."
"If you don't want to do that? We'll just keep playing 4 guards and a smallish forward...ok? It's really fun, right? They run fast and shoot lots of threes...yay! We've got the best bench in the NBA! We've got the most improved back up players anywhere!"
I'm bitter, I'm very, very bitter.