Knicks Morning News (2018.06.22)

The Phoenix Suns took the Arizona big man Deandre Ayton with the first pick in the draft. Here’s a look at the entire first round.

Adrian Wojnarowski and other prominent journalists were said to be prohibited from disclosing draft picks, in deference to the N.B.A.’s broadcast agreements.

The art of losing in order to rebuild with young, cheap players through the N.B.A. draft has become popular, but the data doesn’t necessarily back it up.

GREENBURGH, N.Y. — The Knicks went out on a limb and selected Mystery Man Mitchell Robinson with the No. 36 pick in the NBA Draft.

Kevin Knox is ready to follow in Kristaps Porzingis’ footsteps after being booed at the draft just like the Unicorn.

GREENBURGH, N.Y. — In drafting freshman wing Kevin Knox with the No. 9 pick in the NBA Draft, Knicks’ brass fell in love with his talent, upside, and Kentucky pedigree.

GREENBURGH, N.Y. — The Knicks drafted Kentucky’s Kevin Knox with an eye toward making the franchise “attractive” to free agents in 2019 — most notably New Jersey native Kyrie Irving.

Kevin Knox is coming to The Garden.The Knicks tabbed the 18-year-old Kentucky forward with the No. 9 pick in the NBA Draft on Thursday night.

The Knicks selected former McDonald’s All-American Mitchell Robinson with the No. 36 pick in the 2018 NBA Draft.

Knicks fans at the Barclay’s Center were unhappy that the team passed on Michael Porter Jr. and selected Kevin Knox.

The Knicks selected F Kevin Knox with the 9th overall pick in the NBA Draft on Thursday night. Here’s how Twitter has reacted to the news.

The Knicks have selected Kentucky F Kevin Knox with the 9th pick of the 2018 NBA Draft. Here’s his scouting report.

Here’s a look at what the Knicks expect the 6-foot-9 Knox to do on the Madison Square Garden court next season…

With the 2018 NBA Draft upon us, let’s take a tour through the final NBA mock drafts around the sports media landscape to see who the Knicks might be taking with the 9th pick.

It is a big night for Knicks team president Steve Mills and GM Scott Perry as they make their first NBA Draft picks.

While talk has centered around Kevin Knox, Mikal Bridges, and Collin Sexton, Lonnie Walker IV could be an option for Knicks in Draft.

Head coach David Fizdale met Wednesday with Mohamed Bamba, but the Knicks are unlikely to trade up for the shot-blocking sensation.

Go ahead, Knicks fans. Dream about Kevin Knox’s upside. John Calipari thinks the Knicks hit a home run with his former player. “It’s a futures league. He’s 18 years old. You’re trying to project who of these guys can be special, and when you look at what they were having at that pick, if that…

The Knicks selected New Orleans mystery man, 7-foot-1 center Mitchell Robinson with the 36th pick in the second round. Robinson, who has a 7-4 wingspan, didn’t play any games in college, committing to Texas A&M, switching to Western Kentucky before leaving the school and decided to train for the draft. Robinson even backed out of…

The fact is, in the end, you want what they want, and they want what you want. Sure, it’s always funny whenever a draft is held in New York and when the name announced causes visceral pain among the faithful in attendance. At last count, the video of the Jets selecting Jeff Lageman with the…

Michael Porter Jr. gained a team and 13 enemies. Porter, once the top high school recruit in the country and widely projected as a top-10 pick until this week, fell all the way to No. 14 and Denver during the NBA draft Thursday. Teams, including the Knicks at No. 9, had gotten scared off by the…

With injury-plagued Michael Porter Jr. dropping like a rock to No. 9 and fans at Barclays Center chanting his name, the Knicks wouldn’t take a chance on the Missouri forward. But the Knicks still wound up taking something of a chance on draft night with Kentucky freshman Kevin Knox, the second-youngest player in the draft…

Kevin Knox said he wasn’t fazed by some of the boos he heard when the Knicks selected him at No. 9, saying that Knicks fans booed Kristaps Porzingis on draft night, too.

GREENBURGH, N.Y. — The Knicks could have gone with the safe pick or taken a risk. They went with the latter, but not the one their fans wanted.

Scott Perry had done all his homework. He had brought in more players to work out than we can list here. He had talked to their college coaches. He had talked to some of their parents. He had made judgments about their skill and character and how they would fit with the Knicks’ current personnel.

Nearly everyone knew whose name would be called first Thursday at the NBA Draft, perhaps first and foremost, the man himself, Deandre Ayton. But when commissioner Adam Silver finally took the stage at Barclays Center, Ayton’s hands started sweating. His calm assurance — he had already declared his assurance that he would go first and only worked out with the Suns — suddenly abandoned him.

At a press conference this week, Mayor de Blasio said, “We will do everything we can to stop the federal government from separating parents from their children.”

But the city itself is needlessly splitting up New York families through the Administration for Children’s Services. I know because my…

When Thomas Jefferson wrote, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter,” he was not yet President.

His point, about the virtue of a free press and the vice of crony…

At least 33 kids at a summer camp in Florida fell ill and are being examined, according to WFLA.com.

Officials in Highlands County say 33 kids and three adults from the Clover Leaf 4-H camp in Lake Placid began feeling nauseous — most began vomiting and suffering headaches.

The cause of the disturbance…

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Tori Cohen was in the right place at the right time.

Cohen — a green card holder from Canada who works as a professional organizer in New York — was in a client’s home last October when they started talking and her immigration status came up in the conversation.

Her client,…

The broad-daylight March slaughter of two small kids in Park Slope, by a driver with no business being behind a wheel, should have spurred even the most craven lawmaker to ensure nothing similar ever happens again.

New York’s Legislature, where pols are always setting new Guinness World Records…

Just who was that guy sitting on the Seattle Mariners bench, the odd fellow with the bushy mustache, shades and a hoodie?

Wait a second — it was Ichiro!

Now a team executive, Ichiro Suzuki donned a Bobby Valentine-style disguise and sneaked into the Seattle dugout Thursday to watch a bit of the…

CARNELIAN BAY, Calif. — A bear that managed to break into a car needed help from a sheriff’s deputy to get out.

The Placer County Sheriff’s Office in California says it happened near Lake Tahoe. The bruin had damaged the Subaru Outback so badly that the doors would not unlock.

Video shows a deputy…

Tax cut revved up the economy

Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.: What the biased dynamic duo Fordham University accounting professors Harry Newman and Stan Veliotis fail to mention in their “crumbs for the paupers” diatribe (“Keep asking: Why is your tax cut so small?” June 20) is the following: In the six…

BETHEL PARK, Pa. — Residents and business owners began cleaning up Thursday in the wake of a storm that dumped nearly four inches of rain on parts of western Pennsylvania, killing at least one and prompting scores of evacuations as powerful floodwaters carried off cars and damaged buildings.

A…

BOSTON — A federal jury has awarded $18.4 million in damages to a man who said in a lawsuit that two doctors failed to test him for HIV, which allowed the virus to progress to AIDS.

The Boston Globe reports the jury ruled Monday in favor of 48-year-old Sean Stentiford in his medical malpractice…

CONCORD, N.H. — A man who ran through a New Hampshire apartment complex terrorizing residents while naked, also threw glass at police officers and beat a dog before being hit with a stun gun and arrested.

The Concord Monitor reports that 28-year-old Irakoze Ildephonse had appeared high on drugs…

HONOLULU — An 800-pound chunk from the USS Arizona battleship that sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor is heading to Texas for display at a war memorial.

The Texas Panhandle War Memorial in Amarillo will receive the steel plate and part of the battleship’s wooden deck. The Navy cut…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has agreed to investigate a confirmed case of West Nile virus in Illinois.

The Illinois Department of Public Health says Wednesday the state saw its first human case of the virus for 2018 in mid-May. The case occurred earlier in…

A white Ohio police officer was fired after detaining his daughter’s black boyfriend without cause, according to chroniclet.com.

John Kovach Jr., a cop in Lorain, pulled over his daughter’s 18-year-old boyfriend, Makai Coleman, and proceeded to tell him he would be “going to jail” while offering…

Gov. Cuomo was cleared of any wrongdoing in the sexual harassment claim against the former head of the Empire State Development Corporation, a judge ruled Thursday.

In the #Metoo claim, Buffalo woman Lisa Marie Cater accused the governor of naming William (Sam) Hoyt, a former Democratic assemblyman,…

LUKEVILLE, Ariz. — U.S. Border Patrol agents in Arizona say they’ve rescued a 6-year-old Costa Rican boy who was abandoned by a smuggler in the desert.

Ajo Station agents say they found the boy Tuesday just north of the Mexico border.

He told agents he was on his way to see his parents in the United…

Anything Rian Johnson can do, fans think they can do better.

A group of fans, going under the Twitter handle @RMTheLastJedi or “Remake the Last Jedi,” have decided that they could put on a much better Episode VIII than Johnson did.

“This is a campaign to provide Disney an opportunity to course…

DZANAN MUSA

Height: 6-9

Position: SF

Age: 19

School/Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Fun fact: He was the ninth-youngest player to debut in the EuroLeague in October 2015 at 16 years and 160 days.

Scouting report: ESPN draft analyst Mike Schmitz called him a “Bosnian scoring machine.” The guy can…

Hundreds of migrant children have already been reunited with their families since the start of President Trump’s immigration crackdown, an official said Thursday, even as the administration’s struggle to house the kids intensifies.

About 500 children separated from their parents because of the…

Chris Cuomo just gave Corey Lewandowski a civics lesson.

The former Trump campaign manager, who has been battered by the media for saying “womp womp” on live TV after hearing a 10-year-old immigrant girl with Down syndrome had been taken from her parents at the at the U.S.-Mexico border, was drilled…

The Knicks have a new mystery man.

Mitchell Robinson, who enrolled in Western Kentucky but never played (by choice), was drafted in the second round by New York on Thursday – (36th overall) – representing an intriguing talent with many concerns, both about his game and character.

The 7-foot center…

The Nets went full Euro.

Brooklyn selected Bosnian small forward Dzanan Musa with the 29th pick of Thursday night’s draft at Barclays Center. Eleven picks later, in the second round, the Nets drafted another European wing, Latvian Rodions Kurucs, who spent last season with FC Barcelona Lassa of…

GENEVA — Pope Francis journeyed Thursday to the well-heeled city of Geneva to encourage all Christians, despite their differences, to join in efforts to foster justice and fight poverty while the rich grow “ever more wealthy.”

The pontiff’s day-long “ecumenical pilgrimage” to the lakeside Swiss…

Kevin Knox

Height: 6-9

Position: F

Age: 18

School: Kentucky

Fun fact: His father, Kevin, was a wide receiver and national champion at Florida State before playing one season for the Arizona Cardinals.

Scouting report: As his former college coach John Calipari repeated over and over about Knox:…

WikiLeaks has published a catalog of U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement officials with employment history scraped from their LinkedIn profiles.

The group known for blasting classified records debuted its “ICEPatrol” project Thursday night with a database of photos, titles, job and school history…