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BREAKING: Knicks Fans Upset About Thing Team Does

Man, can you believe those Knicks? They had the first pick in the NBA Draft last night and instead of going with potential franchise-changer Anthony Davis, they go with obscure Greek forward Kostas Papanikolaou? What are these guys thinking?!

…Oh? What’s that? The Knicks actually had the 48th pick, and some mock drafts actually projected Papanikolaou to go before the Knicks’ selection, and the selection was immediately hailed by international prospect analyst Fran Fraschilla, who said Papanikolaou has borderline first-round talent? Well, don’t tell that to the Knicks fans in attendance at the draft last night, because as soon as deputy commissioner Adam Silver made the announcement, those people were out for blood:

Silver: “With the 48th pick in the 2012 draft, the New York Knicks select LeBron James, Michael Jordan 20 years ago, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from 1975, Tim Duncan in 2003, and Magic Johnson in 1987. I have no idea how they did it, but they will now get all five of those players in their exact primes with one mid-second-round pick.”

Knicks fans: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

OK, fine, we’ll admit the annual Knicks fan meltdown is entertaining. The “Are you kidding me?!” arm gestures, the finger wags, the cascades of anguished screams before Silver even finishes saying the guy’s name. But good Lord, what do these people expect?! It was the 48th pick. Yeah, he’ll stay in Greece for a while – he was also the 48th pick. Here’s how the draft shook out. Do any of the names selected after Papanikolaou capture your fancy? How much better could the Knicks really have done? And why do we get the feeling that no matter what they’d done, it wouldn’t have been enough for that crowd?

[via Jimmy Traina, video by Jose3030]