It doesn’t matter who is the general manager or whether their star player is possibly being traded. The New York Knicks will always be the Knicks, and nobody can stop them.
On the first day of summer league practices, their first-round pick, Frank Ntilikina, was given a jersey that, well, did not spell “Ntilikina.”
it's spelled n-t-i-l-i-k-i-n-a
— Tim Cato (@tim_cato) June 29, 2017
the Knicks messed up like the entire final third of his name pic.twitter.com/x6PJ7xm17C
That’s not a letter off. That’s not a typo away from being correct. The entire final third of his name is incorrect — missing an “I” and with a couple letters reversed. Whoops.
The Knicks immediately pulled down the photo gallery from their team site, but here’s a cached version that should still have the photo. Look, this doesn’t really matter. Ntilikina surely doesn’t really care, as long as they get it fixed. But you’d think, especially with a name that’s as tricky as his (to us dumb Americans, at least), and especially when it’s your team’s top draft pick, you would be extra, extra careful. I guess not!