By choosing to sign with the Lakers rather than the Knicks, Marcus Smart highlighted a problem New York must contend with ...

The Knicks fired Tom Thibodeau after he helped turn the franchise around over the last five years, before leading them to their first Eastern Conference Finals appearance in 25 years. The logic for ...

The issue, potentially, is the departure of Payne. Last year, Payne averaged 5.25 post-entry and elbow-entry passes intended for Towns per 100 possessions, by far the highest on the Knicks.