He does not burden the same as the two giants who previously led the Knicks between the dances of glory and prosperity. Willis Reed was a center that came out of old fashioned models: furious rebounds and interior domination (even handing out a few inches to almost every center he’s played before).
Patrick Ewing? When he was at his best he was a two-way force, gobbling very important rebounds and demanding the ball at every key moment in every game he played as Nick. Both Reed and Ewing were able to shoot from the boundary line, but there were no three-point shots that year, and there were people who helped themselves out of the depths.
The town of Karl Anthony is as talented as any of the Knicks Granite past icons. Now, as long as these Knicks playoffs continue, he will be the focus of everything they do – good and bad. Saturday night’s opening round against the Pistons in the Eastern Conference was just the first step in what he wanted to blend time and place.
And there’s no good way to dive into the postseason chapter of his career, in front of his pregnant eyes at Madison Square Garden.
