Bold Offseason Moves by the Knicks Bring Showtime to the Garden

Trade for Mikal Bridges outshines LeBron James family reunion at LA.

AP/Eric Gay
Brooklyn Nets forward Mikal Bridges, left, is being traded from the Nets to the New York Knicks, where he will join Jalen Brunson and other former Villanova teammates. AP/Eric Gay

They reside on opposite coasts, and when it comes to their basketball resumes, the Los Angeles Lakers with 17 NBA Championships own way more bragging rights than the New York Knicks, who have won two titles, the last coming 51 years ago. Yet the Knicks are Broadway box office this offseason while the storied Lakers have gone to Sideshow from Showtime.

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