Karl-Anthony Towns and the bench both struggled badly.Towns finished with 15 points and 18 rebounds, but his offensive game looked completely off. He shot just 2-for-8 from three-point range and committed frustration fouls that hurt the team at critical moments.

Knicks legend Walt “Clyde” Frazier threw a hilarious haymaker at Pat Riley during the Knicks-Heat game on the MSG Network Sunday night. “Pat Riley and I entered the league the same year,” Frazier explained to his partner Mike Breen. “He tried to guard me and that’s how he ended up as a coach.”

Miami used a late run to pull away from New York and win its home opener, days after guard Terry Rozier was placed on leave amid federal betting allegations.

The complementary help the team signed over the offseason, however, has failed to live up to early expectations. Jordan Clarkson has been shooting an inefficient 26.1% from the field, but the streaky shooter has escaped plenty of hairy shooting dips over his 11 full seasons of bucket-generation.

I’m sure after last week’s season-opening Power Rankings, many of you have questions. The entire NBA season is a series of questions, bound by the primary objective that most teams have of trying to win a championship or build toward some sort of team that could contend in a reasonable amount of time.

The major storyline is Luka Dončić guiding the Lakers to a dominant win over a top-tier foe in the Western Conference, dispatching Minnesota by a final margin of 128-110. However, the Slovenian’s individual excellence is to be marveled at:

Josh Hart missed the last four preseason games with lower back spasms, then missed their season-opening win over the Cavaliers. Hart made his debut Friday in the win over the Celtics.