Don't tell Earl Monroe, but the New York Knicks have a long, long way to go before anyone mistakes them for a serious contender in the Eastern Conference.
Per Marc Berman of the New York Post, the former Knicks guard gushed: "If these guys can get off to a good start and stabilize what their roles are, I don’t see why they can’t be as good as the rest of the guys in the East. I see them [in the top four] easily."
Pearls of wisdom those aren't. Enthusiasm, perhaps? Are there such things as pearls of exuberant homerism? That seems closer to the mark.
Let's take it easy on Monroe, though. Irrational optimism is part of fandom. Check any comments section for proof. And when someone who's invested years of his life in a team exhibits some glass-half-full thinking, it's forgivable.
Monroe played nine years with the Knicks and won a ring in 1973 alongside Phil Jackson. So it's no shock he's going back for seconds on that Zen Kool-Aid.
"Whatever he does, he's an extension of us—the old Knicks," Monroe said of Jackson. "I'm proud of what he's done for us."
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Why New York Knicks Are Still Far from Elite in Improved Eastern Conference
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