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Knicks misspelled top draft pick Frank Ntilikina’s last name by 3 letters

Come on, this is the most Knicks thing of all time.

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.”

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!

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