Kristaps Porzingis just began his third season, and somehow it feels like we’ve waited a decade for him to have a competent point guard. This is a more Knicks-wide crisis, decades in the making, involving a procession of washed, deluded, or otherwise bleak names: Stephon Marbury, (old) Baron Davis, (old sad) Steve Francis, (sad) Derrick Rose, Raymond Felton, Pablo Prigioni, Jose Calderon, to name just a few. So yes, the issue precedes him—but Zinger is the type of player who makes that absence really felt, the voracious son who deserves to be fed. Someone, anyone, just feed this boy, he’s so slender. Already it was heartening to see Jarrett Jack—yet another old point guard, an easy signing to mock, but a good one—deliver Porzingis 12 assists in their first 28 minutes together…
Early this morning, a cargo truck overturned on a Detroit highway, scattering boxes of frozen chicken wings across the asphalt, capping off what has been a remarkable year for highway-spill enthusiasts. Let us now stroll down food-spill memory lane. Watch your footing, it might be slippery. The year started off slowly, but finally in March, there was a corndog spill near Shreveport, La. The spills started picking up steam in the summer. There were two separate Bud Light spills in 2014: The first, in June, happened in North Dakota, and was followed by a September spill in the Houston area. A massive Red Bull spill menaced I-95 in Florida in early July. In August, a fish spill took place in Thailand. Woof. Closer to home, a " cranberry sludge" spill marred a Massachusetts…