Knicks and 76ers to wage epic battle for the bottom

Yesterday I wrote a blog titled "Is it possible the Knicks can out-tank the 76ers?"  Well, apparently I jumped the gun a little.  In the immortal words of Ron Burgundy:



Since my post 24 hours ago, all of the following things happened:

Aware of the pathetic product they we're putting out on the floor, the Sixers decided to provide their fans with entertainment outside of basketball:

A (silent) sneak peek at the new 3-D intro video set to debut tonight. 👀 https://t.co/maGFlcj10k
— Philadelphia 76ers (@Sixers) January 5, 2015

Amazingly, Philadelphia followed that up by getting its first home win of the year (in game No. 33) to improve to 5-28.

76ers get 1st home win of season! Their 0-14 start is 2nd-worst home start in NBA history (1993-94 Mavericks, 0-19) (via @eliassports)
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) January 6, 2015

Meanwhile, the Knicks responded by trading away former sixth man of the year J.R. Smith and their best defensive player Iman Shumpert for basically nothing, as well as cutting their opening night starting center, Samuel Dalembert.  At the same time New York also dropped its 12th straight game to take over the league's worst record at 5-32.  On top of that, this little nugget popped up as well:

Carmelo Anthony has been resisting idea of resting that sore knee, but Knicks have been encouraging him to sit, league sources tell Yahoo.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) January 6, 2015

The tank war wages on...

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