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Let’s try to remember one thing from hereon out, as we contemplate what happens next during this Double-Asterisk Season: The only function of NBA prognostication, from this point forward in The Year of Our Lin 2012, is to make things such as astrology and political punditry seem sensible.
Maybe you were on the Knicks’ bandwagon, the one piled high with beads and party balloons and adult beverages and revved up to chug down Broadway again.
We’re not here to tell you to jump off. We’re just saying that for all the inherent gifts contained in their 15 bodies, you can’t fast-track this process, you can’t will this to happen overnight just by showing up at MSG with your smile welded in place and your eyes aglitter with the moment.
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