Knicks have worst record in NBA

This is a Knicks season in which everything that can go wrong has gone wrong — even on nights they don’t play.

In a double whammy, on the same night rookie lottery pick Kevin Knox was snubbed for All-Star Weekend’s Rising Stars Challenge, the Knicks plummeted to the very bottom of the NBA barrel, owning outright the league’s worst record.

Cleveland’s 116-113 victory Tuesday over Washington vaulted the Cavs over the woebegone Knicks, who have lost 10 straight games, 23-of-25 and haven’t won a home game since Dec. 1.

The Knicks’ 10-39 record gives them the NBA’s worst winning percentage at .204. The Cavaliers vaulted to .212 at 11-41. The Suns are at .208 with an 11-42 mark.

Under the new lottery reform, the bottom three teams will share the same percentage of winning the Zion Williamson Lottery at 14 percent. But the club with the worst record cannot fall past the fifth pick in what some NBA executives feel is not a deep draft.

Knicks coach David Fizdale has all but admitted since November — and has repeated countless times — the won-loss record doesn’t matter as much as player development. However, the young players have stumbled establishing an offensive identity in sharing the ball and they make endless defensive breakdowns, especially in close games in the fourth quarter.

The team that is all about the future won’t have anyone in the futures All-Star Game that contains the NBA’s best rookies and sophomores during All-Star Weekend.

Knox won the Eastern Conference’s Rookie of the Month in December, but that didn’t help his cause. Lakers’ second-year point guard Lonzo Ball, out with an ankle injury, was selected to the game, so it’s possible Knox could still go as an injury replacement.

Otherwise, the Knicks will have no representation in Charlotte for All-Star Weekend, befitting the NBA’s worst team. The Knicks, who face Dallas at the Garden on Wednesday, have 33 games left. They need to go 7-26 to reach the 2014-15 mark of 17-65 that stands as the worst record in franchise history. Don’t count on it, especially if Kristaps Porzingis is ruled out for the season in mid-February, when he’ll be reevaluated as he rehabs from surgery on his torn ACL.

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