Let’s air the Knicks’ laundry on Next Dance

I’ve been watching “The Last Dance” because I’m getting my basketball fix wherever possible these days. If you had to pick three other teams in the history of the NBA to be covered in similar documentary fashion, what teams would you pick and why?

I was a big fan of the Utah Jazz in the John Stockton/Karl Malone era and it’s a little painful to relive those 1998 NBA Finals. — Andrew How good would a brutally honest, no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes footage of, say, the last decade of the New York Knicks be? And if that’s too long a time, I’d go for the period of maybe 2010-15.

Barring that, and all of this depends on access we obviously won’t get, the Showtime Lakers with Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Pat Riley might be interesting.

So, too, would the Portland era known as the Jail Blazers and those great Seattle teams that always fell short. As I’ve been watching “The Last Dance,” I’ve been reminded of my long-held belief that what the greats do on the playing field doesn’t translate into coaching/managing.

Michael Jordan hasn’t had much success in Charlotte, Wayne Gretzky had a bit of go in Arizona to mediocre results (although I believe he won an Olympic gold as an executive). The only example I can think of is Mario Lemieux winning the

Cup in Pittsburgh as an owner. I guess Larry Bird had a pretty successful run in Indiana.

My premise is that those who aren’t as good see more of the machinations of coaching from being on the bench. Am I crazy? — Santino That’s a pretty solid premise. One thought I’ve seen advanced — and one that I tend to agree with — is that the best players have a natural gift for the game that is hard for them to teach and their expectations are so high on others because they came so naturally to them that it’s impossible for others to live up to them. And maybe in some cases, the very best have exhausted themselves by pushing themselves so hard it’s impossible to keep finding that daily energy.

Plus, it’s damn hard to coach and there’s little upside to it. Has there ever been an NBA game result that was overturned afterward as a result of later review? Why? I cannot recall any. — Bill The last game in which a protest was upheld and part of the game replayed was in 2008 when about 50 seconds of a Magic-Hawks game was ordered replayed because of an illegal substitution. The original result — a Hawks win — ended up being the actual result. Over the history of the league, 44 protests have been upheld, and two games have ended in different results than the original outcome.