Isaiah Hartenstein was never gonna stay. Quit moping and think about the future.

A catalogue of what’s currently working and not working in NBA digital media — around the league and for the Knicks

The basketball illiteratti say the Knicks always have the second-best player on the floor. Last night Jalen Brunson broke the critics, the defense and the Suns in a historic 50-point masterpiece

When does a last-second L not hurt? When there’s bigger fish to fry.

The Knicks got Josh Hart. The rest of the NBA went absolutely bonkers, and only a handful of teams left the NBA’s trade deadline the same as they started. The Strickland’s staff got together again to take a look around now that all the dust has settled.

Led by their defense, the Knicks romp and rampage to their second straight W.

The Knicks ducked back below .500 after a terribly bad defensive second half, highlighted by their head coach and their star power forward’s impacts.

The Knicks lost their 17th game of their last 20 to the Suns, finding an impressive new way to lose to the top team in the West short their two best players.

The Knicks lost a laugher at home to the hottest team in the NBA. The real question: is this a building block, or a sign of things to come?

If the bigger name point guards are all off the board for the Knicks in free agency, could Cam Payne present a solid consolation prize as a late-blooming guard with scoring and transition appeal, fresh off a Finals run?

The Knicks and Suns both returned to the playoffs this year after long droughts… but are the two teams intrinsically linked through a series of shared players, coaches, and opportunities both missed and taken?

The Knicks dropped their second straight game in embarrassing fashion, blowing a double-digit lead and tanking the fourth quarter in the Valley of the Sun on the 51st anniversary of the Knicks’ first championship.

The Knicks came back from an early deficit to take the lead from the Suns in the second half, at one point even leading by double digits. Unfortunately, there was a whole fourth quarter to play, and they got decimated.

Can the Knicks rebound from one of their more embarrassing losses of the season? They get a prime chance in the Valley of the Sun against a team that beat them with some late game heroics just a couple weeks ago.

The Knicks hung in there with Phoenix at home, looking for a 10th straight win. But the Suns are just a little further along in their journey to redemption, in large part because of Chris Paul, who put New York away in the closing minutes of a 118-108 loss.

The Knicks got up big early over the Suns, but ultimately a big run by Phoenix and an absolutely dominant performance from Chris Paul down the stretch ended the win streak at nine.

The Knicks are on the precipice of a 10-game win streak, but their path to double digits won’t be an easy one — they have the Phoenix Suns in town, the second seed in the West.