Just like last year, the NBA general managers keep on sleeping on Tom Thibodeau and the New York Knicks.
Despite the addition of Kemba Walker and Evan Fournier to a core that finished fourth in the East last season, the general managers around the league don’t see a top-seven team.
In the annual NBA GM survey released Tuesday, Knicks’ crosstown rival Brooklyn Nets emerged as the heavy favorites to win the title, netting 72 percent of the overall votes, followed by Los Angeles Lakers (17%) and Milwaukee Bucks (10%).
The Knicks were nowhere to be found among the Eastern Conference’s top seven teams.