The Knicks are around a week away from playing their first meaningful basketball game since losing in the Eastern Conference Finals earlier this year.

But there he was, diving on the floor at halftime to win money in a tic-tac-toe match.

Tic-tac-toe doesn’t have much of a rep. Sure, it’s a simple, brief distraction from the monotony of existence, but once your 8-year-old self realizes that you can always force a draw, it loses its ...