Why Knicks must resist the Trae Young temptation

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Knicks rookie point guard Frank Ntilikina couldn’t legally enjoy a beer Wednesday as he sat in the stands at TD Garden in Boston watching the Celtics and Cavaliers play Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals with a small team contingent. In fact, Ntilikina, 19, won’t be able to do that until the 2020 Eastern Conference finals — he’s 14 months from turning 21. Ntilikina sat to the left of new coach David Fizdale. Point guard Emmanuel Mudiay, 22, sat to Fizdale’s right. Shooting guard Damyean Dotson, 24, the 2017 second-round pick who is part of the future, was next to Mudiay. The lesson of the Knicks’ young trio bonding with Fizdale could not have been clearer: The Knicks had better not draft

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