Hear Us Out: The Knicks Should Tank Their Season So We Can Get Another Spike Lee Film Some Time This Decade

So, the Knicks aren’t having a great season and are dragging to the finish line, despite what they managed to accomplish last year. And while this has turned off some fans, it hasn’t been enough to stop famed director Spike Lee from sitting court-side at every home game. That means if we want another ‘Malcolm X,’ ‘Do The Right Thing,’ or—hell—even some funky Air Jordan commercials in the next 10 years, then the Knicks sure as shit better tank the rest of this season.

Yes, we know it’s a foregone conclusion that Spike will show up to Madison Square Garden no matter how the team is doing. But in the past, when the team has been bad enough, Spike has expended less creative energy on trash talking court-side and more effort on filmmaking. In fact, he wrote and storyboarded the entirety of ‘Blackkklansman,’ in the arena during the Knicks’ 31-57 season in 2017. Many critics believe that if the Knicks had been just a little worse that year, he would have won the Oscar.

Spike had a similar slump during the late ‘90s when the Knicks were uncharacteristically competent. If you recall, while the Knicks made it to the Finals, Lee was bombing at the box office with ‘Summer of Sam’ and ‘Get On The Bus.’ That’s right, two films so forgettable, you had to check his IMDB to make sure we weren’t making those up.

So please, Knicks, your season is a lost cause regardless, why not simply fake injuries to sit out the rest of the season for the sake of Spike Lee’s artistic integrity and the very soul of this nation? The Lakers rose to the challenge for Jack Nicholson in 1974 by having one of their worst seasons so he could make ‘Chinatown.’ Then they got selfish in 1990 and Nicholson put out the sequel, ‘The Two Jakes.’ Please learn from the tragedies of history.