![]() Well, that settles it then: one left-handed lineup to rule them all. And he’s a player who just happens to be a sweet-shooting 6-foot-4 combo guard who would fit in ever so snuggly and oh so coincidentally playing the 2 spot next to Brunson, RJ, Randle, and Hartenstein. He’s a player who just happens to be left-handed. He’s a player the Knicks drafted in 2021, and has been stashed overseas playing for Barcelona. The final piece of that masterplan, by the way, may be hiding in plain sight: Rokas Jokubaitis. Maybe this is why he doesn’t talk to the media, afraid he might let slip a Freudian clue to his lefty masterplan. Maybe this is why Leon Rose - clearly a closet historian of Knick handedness - didn’t pull the trigger on the Donovan Mitchell trade, him being a humdrum right-hander. Only with the slight difference that they went for otherworldly shooting as their experimental differentiator while we’re going for mass lefty lineups. This might be the Knicks’ version of the Warriors’ “lightyears ahead” experimentation. But between 19 they had four lefties seven times, three lefties four times, and even had a season in 1968-69 featuring six left-handers! They also, you know, won the only two NBA championships in Knicks history during that span, meaning this was simultaneously the most left-handed and most successful period the franchise has ever had.Ĭlearly, then, this concept of left-handedness as a strategy needs to be explored. It’s a fact that the Knicks haven’t had four left-handers on a roster for 42 years. It’s a fact that Patrick Ewing played his first six seasons in New York without a single left-handed player making a Knicks roster, before being joined by two lefties - Mason and Anthony - in the 1991-92 season to kickstart a dominant decade of Knicks basketball. It’s a fact that the last time a Brunson played a debut season in New York, the Knicks made a Finals run. The list of legendary lefties with Knicks ties speaks for itself.īut is that all it is? Is there a deeper meaning hidden here? An omen of sorts? Not just because left-handers are objectively excellent humans, wise and kind and professionally serious basketball writers, but because this sudden glut of lefties in New York can only be seen as a symbol of the franchise’s imminent prosperity. And given the inconsistent health and offensive limitations of Mitchell Robinson - the Knicks’ presumptive starting center - they should get some significant run together. Jalen Brunson, RJ Barrett, Julius Randle, and Isaiah Hartenstein are all left handed, you see. Twelve percent of you will well up with pride as your directionally-dominant comrades stride out onto the Madison Square Garden hardwood this season and make sweet, sweet, left-handed history. Twelve percent of you will feel a bespoke biological bond with a future four-man lineup destined for certain greatness. Twelve percent of you are in for a treat this season. ![]()
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