Monday marked precisely 51 weeks since Leon Rose formally started to mildew the Knicks in his most popular picture, and it was proper that to mark the event, the Toronto Raptors had been the opponent.
For it was precisely 51 weeks earlier — Dec. 30, 2023 — when Knicks followers acquired one of many first beautiful bits of stories they’d gotten for the reason that Knicks had begun working their means again into the material of town.
That was the day they swapped RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley for OG Anunoby and Valuable Achiuwa. It wasn’t just like the information had fallen solely out of the sky. At varied factors in the summertime of 2023, there have been rumors that the Knicks coveted Anunoby, and the obvious giveback was certain to be Barrett, the No. 3 decide within the ballyhooed 2019 NBA Draft.
Nonetheless …
