Source: New York Post
See Also beyond the back page Why the Knicks’ early playoff path could be a lot trickier than expected Mike Brown has already outrun the least favorable comp name that immediately resurfaced when the Knicks hired him as Tom Thibodeau’s replacement last July, and he did that with relative ease. Maybe there was a time during that 2-9 stretch in January when you started to hear folks around the Garden and among Knicks fans whisper, “Nellie. ” Maybe the adjustment between Brown and Karl-Anthony Towns, which took a good 50 games or so, recalled how Don Nelson made the ever-curious decision back in 1995 to minimize Patrick Ewing and maximize Anthony Mason — all due respect to the late, great Mase, even 30 years later it sounds like someone is punking you when you say the words — but that one seems to be in the past, too.
