However, the story of the night will be that the Knicks have some work to do if they wish to compete with the Celtics for the Eastern Conference crown. “We have to play better, but I’m not disappointed in our team,

The weekend before the preseason began, New York agreed to its second colossal transaction of the summer, sending Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Towns, a man the Knicks had kept in the corner of their sightline for years. But the trade hardly ended with those three people.