There is no way of telling how it will all shake out come July but one way or another it’s going to be interesting. The Knicks may rise to almost unprecedented heights or fall back into the depths of basketball despair and it all depends on a handful of outcomes: where they land in the lottery, how they fair in free agency, and what they choose to do with their assets on the trade market. This article looks at four possible scenarios and ranks them from absolute nightmare to unfathomable dream

Remember: this is only a handful of potential outcomes. There is obviously room for wide variability and in all likelihood what does actually come to be for the New York Knicks this summer will not be explicitly outlined anywhere on this list. This article is intended to be more food for thought than anything else.

On to the possibilities…