Ironic, wasn’t it?

Heading to Madison Square Garden with the best record in the NBA, the Phoenix Suns had won four straight by an average margin of 21.3 points.

Surely, the lowly New York Knickerbockers had no chance.

What they did have, however, was the architect – the genius behind it all.

November’s coach of the month and student of the school of “seven seconds or less,” Alvin Gentry, knew it.

His former team knew it.

Anybody who had any rooting interest in the game knew it.

So, was anybody really surprised when Mike D’Antoni’s Knicks tallied 71 points by the break?

Trying to fool the wizard?

Yeah, right.

D’Antoni even had his men playing a little defense, something that baffles his former team, even against a putrid Knicks squad.

No, this is not the sign of the apocalypse, Suns fans, just a minor slip-up.

Planet Orange will continue to leave defensive scheming to the other teams who have the vexing task of trying to guard them.

But it has to leave you wondering, why again did D’Antoni get fired?