Try “Markkanen,” fellas. It’s really not that difficult. 🙂

they could probably give lauri or collins a few minutes at center if they’re playing a small ball lineup. I think markiten played some center last year.

I know what you mean, but to call small ball to a lineup with a 7 footer at center is funny.

Certainly a point in favor of Leon keeping his picks.

Looking at that roster, I don’t know how much playing time RJ will actually get.

Apparently Markaten can play the 3, but Obi is too slow and stiff. It looks like Denver has changed the trend away from small ball.

All of us Knicks fans have to stick around, too. So many questions yet to be answered. What will Josh Hart resign for? How many more 1st round picks will Leon Rose incinerate? The list goes on… 🙂

Here’s a round up of contemporaneous coverage of the trade. Needless to say it does not accord with your accounting of it.

wait… you’re linking phoenix’s overall draft grades which includes their entire draft and citing a lack of comment on the miami pick as some sort of evidence that it wasn’t anything special? yea of course in the context of having the #1 pick and picking deandre ayton and picking mikal bridges you might not talk about the miami pick too much… did you read through these? was all this talk about deandre ayton not clueing you into how relevant to the discussion this was? that’s totally not in scope of what we’re talking about tho… how could you even think this was relevant? the closest thing to an insider cited is jeremy woo… did comment on the miami pick…

here’s what you said about the pick…

https://knickerblogger.net/2018/06/21/2018-draft-comment-thread/

So had we taken Mikal, we could’ve had Zhaire Smith, who would’ve been a fine pick at #9 anyway and is actually a high-risk/high-reward prospect as opposed to Knox who is a high-risk/low-reward prospect, and an UNPROTECTED 2021 first from Miami who will probably be bad soon.

and there are other commentary about the miami pick… and it’s universal agreement what that pick meant and these are mostly casual observers… the miami piack was a valued asset… universally valued very highly because they were an old and capped out team depending on aging pg and a flakey center… and in no way shape or form was that pick in the vicinity of HEAVILY PROTECTED picks from BAD teams…

no way jose…. maybe you might think catching an inside straight we’d get multiple top 10 picks out of this and leaning on that… more power to you it’s a free country…. but you cannot say that these were equal in any way shape or form… categorically false… i would even go so far as revisionist…. and that thread is definitive proof…..