Sampson hurt his left knee during the 1986-87 season but instead of staying on the sidelines he rushed his rehab and played on the bad knee. Sampson had very little cartilage in his left knee and his decision to return too soon proved to be an epic mistake. His game suffered from it and eventually curtailed his promising career.

“I should have been out for a year but came back after eight weeks because I wanted to play the game of basketball and the sport that I love,” Sampson said. “I probably came back a little too early, but we had a chance to go back to The Finals with the team we had, and I wanted to go back with my teammates.”

Sampson was never the same after his knee gave out. He started having back issues as well.

Z, my point was not to find a true comp, but to point out that injuries are part of the game. Twenty percent of life is what happens to you, 80 % is how you react. And, yes, as Phil said before KP had even played 1 minute in the NBA, “he may be too big to play.”

Let’s see how KP responds, reacts and grows from here.

Let’s wait a little longer to see the recovery, prognosis etc. As Aaron Rodgers saud, “relax”.

http://onemanfastbreak.net/the-big-hurt-how-injuries-destroyed-ralph-sampsons-hall-of-fame-career/

According to Berman, the Knicks plan is to lure a free agent to NY to play with TH2, KP, and our 2018 and 2019 lottery picks. I consider Berman and Begley as the two guys plugged into the Knicks’ FO’s thinking, so hearing that gives me hope. If we get Michael Porter Jr this year and RJ Barrett next year we might not even need free agency. This front office sees 2020 as the season to build towards, and that always needed to be the case. KP had to tear an ACL to get us here, but at least we’re here and now the Knicks are looking to add as much through the draft as they can to bolster KP when he gets back.

It’s not a huge deal, but yeah, it’s certainly not as good as it was when it was a pick swap between two teams not that far away from each other in the standings. That definitely makes the deal worse.

It wasn’t swap rights. It was a second rounder outright.

Mudiay’s problem when it comes to finishing around the basket is he falls way too much. He’s not going up strong and then when he falls he can’t get back on defense. Teach that guy to land on his feet when he drives and you might have a useful basketball player.

OK, I think you guys wore me down. you’re right…..you can’t like the upside of the Mudiay trade and also be OK dumping Willie for two 2nds unless you really, really like 2nd round picks

That’s basically it in a nutshell, although I would drop the “unless” part. 😉