There are innumerable ways to bail on workplace responsibility without permission or an acceptable excuse. And for the better part of the 21st century, the Knicks have been a virtual home office for creative, dismissive acts of unaccountability.

As Derrick Rose said Tuesday upon his return from a one-night detour to Chicago, “things happen.”

Things from weird to bad tend to spring up on organizations when the negligence comes from the top down.

This is not to argue that Rose had no acceptable reason — a “family issue,” he said — for missing the Knicks’ 110-96 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans at Madison Square Garden on Monday night, the team’s eighth defeat in nine games in a season turning familiarly sour.

In most postgame analyses, it seemed obvious why the Knicks were suddenly without a point guard, in light of Rose’s being benched by Coach Jeff Hornacek during recent fourth quarters. But when a normally attendant person just disappears, better to withhold judgment until there is proper enlightenment, or spin, which the Knicks served up after practice in a dizzying production on Tuesday.