Much Work Left To Do On Both Sides of River

It's training camp, and normally that's the time for sunny optimism and glass-half-full thinking about how this year can be better than the last one. But in the case of the two local teams, it's also where the happiness about each team's recent change of direction runs into the grim reality that they're each on the first mile of a long road of rebuilding. Take the Knicks, for instance. Their fans are euphoric that Isiah Thomas has been deposed, and rightfully so: His reign of incompetence was...