Carmelo Anthony on 5-26 Knicks: 'We're dying'

Not that this particular dead horse needed to be dragged out for another beating, but nobody seems to need an excuse to call attention to the carcass of the 2014 New York Knicks. 

So, after a 102-91 Christmas Day loss to the Washington Wizards, the Knicks' sixth straight and 16th in their last 17 games, Carmelo Anthony was asked how it feels to be toiling away on what's shaping up as one of the worst teams in franchise history. 

It's not the first time Melo's had some version of that question put to him - and it certainly won't be the last - but he seems to be running out of ways to explain that the situation sucks.

"I feel what the fans are feeling," Anthony said, according to ESPN New York's Ian Begley. "The fans are dying, we’re dying. We’re out there, we’re not producing. We didn’t expect, I didn’t expect to be sitting at 5-26. So as much as I feel for the fans, I feel for us going through it, too. I don’t expect nobody to feel sorry for us, I don’t expect nobody to feel sorry for me."

Team president Phil Jackson tried to take a more optimistic tack, tweeting on the eve of the game against the Wizards that things will improve for the Knicks when the calendar flips to 2015. 

Anthony claimed not to have seen the tweet, but pointed out that if the Knicks do plan to right the ship come the new year, they'll have to do it soon. 

"2015 is in a couple of days," he said.