NBA Draft 2019: Picking RJ Barrett key for Knicks after Kevin Durant's Achilles injury
Column - June 15, 2019
“There’s a black cat running around this organization.”
This phrase was first used by ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith to describe the Dallas Cowboys, an organization filled with seasonal drama and turmoil and of which Smith has been highly critical.
The black cat, while it brings both signs of luck and superstitions, symbolizes for the instances in which it was used a bad omen that is surrounding the franchise.
Now, as the summer months are upon us and the NBA free agency period creeps closer, the black cat has a relative and it has made its home within the building of another professional sports organization.
The quote, whose words were uttered once again by Smith in a recent airing of “First Take”, is now applicable to the New York Knicks.
There is a black cat running around the Knicks organization.