According to sports experts, New York City is coming to the end of its worst NBA season in history.
This 2015-16 season, the Big Apple marked a very bad record. For the first time since 1976-77 when the Nets came into the NBA, both Knicks and Nets franchises will miss the playoffs, finish with losing records, and not even have their own first-round draft picks.
According to New York Post, some players are off the trade table. Because of the perennial All-Star's no-trade clause, that also included Carmelo Anthony.
Carmelo Anthony experienced a loss that came exactly on the fifth anniversary of his trade to New York. The player has refused the post-game interview when reporters gathered at his locker, explaining that he needed to "go home, relax and decompress a little bit."
For all disappointed Knicks and Nets fans, Anthony avoiding interviews sounds like the best move, as historically New York City NBA doesn't get any worse than 2015-16.
When both Knicks and Nets teams fired their coaches close to the end of the season, the situation got even worse. The Knicks and Nets are chasing the two playoff-bound Atlantic Division teams. In June's draft both Toronto and Boston own their first-round picks.
The Raptors and Celtics will each be able to add talented, young, players to their rosters, while the New York teams will be left out for a lottery pick.
This pro basketball season is ending with a disaster in New York. The Knicks have faded from playoff contention to 13th at 28-43, while the Nets are 19-51 and in 14th place in the Eastern Conference.
At least the New York City teams of the past eras had their draft picks. But this June neither the Knicks nor the Nets will be able to capitalize on their losing seasons.
Regarding this situation, one Western Conference executive told Sporting News that it definitely hurts the league to have the Knicks, and Nets bad at the same time. It is a bad situation for everyone to have both teams in New York without No. 1 picks and going both in down cycles at the same time.
