If there is any hopeful throwback to Knicks history it is that the last time the Knicks had two starters in the All-Star Game it was in 1975 when Walt Frazier and Earl Monroe made up the backcourt.

“They were like strays,” says Ian Atkins, remembering the Carlisle United team he cobbled together and then brought back from the dead in much less prosperous times. In 2000/01, like now, the Blues ...