For a brief moment, the light at the end of the mediocrity tunnel was slightly visible.
For less than 24 hours, the New York Knicks were back in a playoff seed for the first time since the season's opening week. At 15-22, they'd "surged" into the Eastern Conference's eighth seed after a victory Monday against the Phoenix Suns at home, marking five straight wins—their only string of three or more victories this season.
And if New York's payroll was some $20 to $30 million lighter, this may have been considered an admirable resurgence.
Much as the rest of the season has gone, though, New York disappointed once again on Tuesday by falling to the Charlotte Bobcats by double digits and dropping back to ninth in the conference.
Truth be told, the Knicks' season has been an uninterrupted struggle, starting on opening night.
Injuries have played a prime role—with Andrea Bargnani, Iman Shumpert and Tim Hardaway Jr. the only rotation players to not have been bitten by the injury bug. But it'd be naive to think that the 2012-13 team's bad habits—that went mostly unpunished thanks to inc ...
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