Orange you sick of the ugly uniforms?
IS ORANGE the new black hole for the Knicks?
As Carmelo Anthony pointed out, it wouldn’t have mattered what the Knicks wore during their 114-73 eyesore loss Sunday to the Celtics at the Garden. But it certainly was a hot, if misguided, topic on Twitter — and even on the MSG postgame show — after the Knicks fell to 0-6 this season in games they’ve worn their alternate orange uniforms.
“No, I’m not a superstitious guy. I won’t blame it on the 12 o’clock game, I won’t blame it on the orange uniforms. Regardless, we could’ve been in the white uniforms today, it’d still been the same thing,” Anthony said after what he described as “an embarrassment” of a game.
The orange jerseys mistakenly were hanging in the team’s lockers before Friday’s game against Orlando, and Raymond Felton joked that he “complained” after seeing them upon arriving at the Garden. The Knicks wore their white uniforms that night, as planned, and pounded the Magic by 38 points.
“It doesn’t matter. It was just a little simple joke we had two or three days ago. But it is nothing to joke about right now. I am not in a joking mood,” said Felton, who scored zero points in 20 minutes. “I am not superstitious about anything. You play whatever you play in, whatever jersey, whatever color, whatever shoes. I am not superstitious.”
Felton added that the Knicks had “no excuses” when also asked if the noon starting time affected their energy and execution levels in their worst loss of the season. They also were blown out at home in an early Sunday matinee by San Antonio on Nov. 10.
“We have been playing 12 o’clock games for a long time now,” Felton said. “It’s one of those type games that you really don’t like and don’t care for, but we have been playing these 12 o’clock games for a long time. So we got to be used to them as well.”
J.R. Smith also issued the “no excuses” response — and was one of several Knicks who refused to let Mike Woodson shoulder the blame for the loss.
“One thing you love about Coach is he’ll always take the blame for us, take the heat. But if people weren’t ready to play, that’s just on us,” said Smith, who was suspended for the first five games of the season for violating the NBA's drug policy. “We’ve got to be prepared to step on the court whether it’s 12 o’clock, 7 o’clock, 8 o’clock, no matter what time the game is. I mean, that's our job as professionals.”