The Knicks at Midseason: Full Arena, No Plan

Walk into Madison Square Garden for a Knicks game these dour days and you can feel the aftershocks from last year’s organizational quake while living on the Phil Jackson fault line.

Jeff Hornacek, the fourth of four coaches under Jackson’s team presidency (counting the inherited Mike Woodson and the interim Kurt Rambis), addresses reporters with that classic lame duck look, the uneasy smile of a man about to have a dentist’s drill plunged into his mouth.

Frank Ntilikina, the 19-year-old French point guard and final transaction of Jackson’s three-plus-season tenure, stoically continues his apprenticeship amid mounting evidence that the revamped front office has rationalized that he can one day be written off as a final Jackson blunder.

And if the building wasn’t haunted enough, gasps from the sight of Kristaps Porzingis recently collapsed in pain with a torn anterior cruciate ligament linger like whispers in a graveyard of broken seasons past, along with Jackson’s forewarnings to himself on drafting the 7-foot-3 Latvian in the first place.

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