Over the next few months, The Strickland will be unveiling its Top 75 New York Knicks of All Time, a compilation of votes and rankings by several staff writers. We’ll unveil the list in ascending groups of 10, culminating with the top five at the end. If you learn anything or have memories to contribute, please do so in the comments! There’s far less material to draw from on some of the older all-time Knicks; anything you can do to paint them more fully is dope.

Welcome to our first Knicktion: Knicks-based fiction. In this first installment, Shwinnypooh and Knicks Illustrated imagine a world where Steve Mills didn’t pull the trigger on Kristaps Porzingis’ trade demand in 2019, setting in motion a chain of events that haunts Knicks fans to this day.

Julius Randle’s value has never been higher, as he’s playing the best ball of his career. It’s for that exact reason that the Knicks shouldn’t entertain moving him, and instead build with their resurgent star.

Jack Huntley muses on the pain of watching Julius Randle and Tim Hardaway Jr. in their miscast roles as first bananas for the Knicks, and ponders a future where Fred VanVleet could find a proper role on the Knicks.