Knicks' worst case worse than you think

I really want to believe that the New York Knicks can’t possibly miss the playoffs in the top-heavy but still eminently shallow Eastern Conference even if the freshly injured Tyson Chandler misses a full six weeks.

I want to believe it because the mood could otherwise get really dark in one of my favorite buildings on Earth. Really, really gloomy even before we get to July 1 and what all this means for Carmelo Anthony’s impending free agency.

If Chandler’s fractured fibula proves to be as disastrous (and long term) as some fear, just when Chandler was looking so good, New York’s problems mushroom even before we get to free agency.