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Free agent forward Jeremy Sochan plans to sign with the New York Knicks after he clears waivers, his agent Deirunas Visockas of Gersh Sports told ESPN on Thursday.
Sochan, who was released by the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday, had 10 interested suitors and landed on the Knicks as his new team. His deal with the Knicks, who had been looking for wing depth before the trade deadline, is for the remainder of the season.
The 6-foot-8 Sochan, 22, provides the Knicks with a young, athletic wing with size and versatility. He averaged 10.4 points, 5.6 rebounds and 25.3 minutes per game across 212 games for the Spurs in four-plus seasons.
The ninth pick in the 2022 NBA draft, he was a two-time Rising Stars participant as a rookie and sophomore. Sochan, who provided lockdown defense when called upon, had fallen out of San Antonio’s rotation due in part to the emergence of rookie forward Carter Bryant, who was drafted No. 14 in 2025.
You almost never get a 23-year-old former top ten pick on the buyout market, so I’m all for it.
But, of course, 23-year-old former top ten picks are rarely on the buyout market, and, well, you know. But, again, very low risk, possible big reward!
Nice to see the Knicks be a good enough destination that a much-desired buyout option chose them!
25 replies on “ESPN: Agent: Jeremy Sochan to sign with Knicks after clearing waivers”
Happy We Signed a Buyout Guy Who Was in the 88th Percentile of DEPM Last Season Day to all who celebrate
He didn’t sign here to sit on the bench . It will be interesting to see how many minutes he gets and what lineups he plays in..
Sochan was a viable NBA player (not good, but acceptable) as a recently as last season, so if you want to give our forwards some minutes off here and there he’s interesting. At least with him and Mo we have some promising young guys which is hard to do with a team like this
1 Brunson, Alvarado, Kolek
2 Hart, Deuce, Clarkson
3 Bridges, Shamet
4 OG, Sochan, Diawarra
5 KAT, Mitch, Hukporti
That’s kind of impressive. It does move Hukporti into an undesirable spot if Mitch can’t play, but at this point we’re kind of all in on Mitch’s health anyway, aren’t we?
Sochan has thus far suffered from being impressively good at a large number of things by non-NBA standards and not good enough at any particular thing by NBA standards. He’s the wrong kind of tweener, in other words.
The question is whether in a limited role he can be switchable and a passable rim protector on defense, and really hammer typical “big” skills on offense and on the glass, because I don’t think we brought him in to try to turn him into a triple double machine.
At a minimum, he should be better than Precious Achiuwa in the Precious Achiuwa role.
Sochan apparently is a good POA defender, which could be useful to have with Deuce being out and Alvarado being our only option in that spot for now.
Boy, really trying to like this because I root for the Knicks.
We beat Philly by 49 with OG and Deuce out. It was one of the more fun games I’ve watched, with everyone contributing. When OG and Deuce come back minutes will be scarce, and now Sochan.
At least we’ll have fun guessing what hair color he’s going to have each day…
I guess if he takes all of Clarkson’s minutes I’ll be okay with it.
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Sochan has played 41% of his minutes at C this year and last year… not that the Spurs have a good track record playing him at appropriate positions.
I’m fine with Huk as a 3rd string C, he’s currently 18th in Actual DEPM this season. There’s a lot of noise, but given his defensive track record in Australia I’m willing to buy it. Don’t ask about his OEPM. Let’s not talk about that.
We do need some PF/big wing depth, and Sochan can credibly do that and play C. He wasn’t nearly as bad in 1300 minutes last year.
Not many great C options on waivers anyhow.
Don’t forget Dadiet who inside sources tell me has greatly improved his water fetching and towel fluffing skills.
So..we have 4 Josh Hart intangibles-y guys on the team now. The vibes better damn immaculate in that locker room. So that means KAT better quit pouting about his role and continue to work. At the same time though- the guys need to make a concerted effort to feed him too. I like Sochan with this group. I wonder though- is it too late to usurp Diawara? That’s going to be an interesting watch. They both are good at the same things, except I trust Diawara’s shot more.
Oh the 2nd half of the season is gonna be fun!
So what is up with OG’s tater tots?
I’ve been assuming it was mostly against big POAs. Would be cool if he could guard smalls. Maybe this is the wing stop we’ve been waiting for?
OG has lost a toenail, so he’s out however long that takes to heal up
I don’t know his game much, but he can’t be worse than Yabu was for us if he defend at all.
Sochan’s DRTG of 113.2 would rank him 18th in the league if he played enough minutes. So there’s that.
Not better than OG (111.9, 13th) or Kawhi (112.8, 16th), but ball park…
So he may be more watchable than Clarkson…
Eye test only, Sochan just feels like a perfect guy to guard Cade and Tatum for 12-15 minutes while relieving OG. Alvie and Deuce are just too small. They’re both perfect for Maxey types.
Can someone share data how efficient Cade and Tatum are when being guarded by Sochan?
Still can’t believe Leon flipped Yabu’s salary into Sochan and Alvie.
really seems like more than anything else the FO identified point of attack defense as a major priority, leading to trading for Alvarado and now picking up Sochan. Sochan looks great guarding the ball, which could mean that in some spots you could have something like Sochan, Hart, Mikal, OG, Mitch type lineups when you need a defensive stop. Against teams like Boston, whose offense seems to be completely based on finding a mismatch, that could be great.
I read that in 23-24 Pop had him playing PG. lmao He may not be a shooter, but I have a feelng his development was not handled very well. I assume he just lost his spot in the rotation this year. He probably needed a change badly. If he can guard multiple positions effectively he’ll be playable on this team, but to be honest, if comes down to a choice I’d rather develop Diawara unless he starts failing.
Maybe our shooting coach can help him.
alvarado and sochan is about the best you could possibly hope for from consignment. ph level continues to dip, which seems like a good thing.
That’s some damn good GM’ing right there
Seems a bit long for something so simple. None of my patients were ever disabled that long.
And we didn’t even give up the WAS picks! I figured that was likely par for getting one of them.
I don’t mind giving OG three weeks off.
Sochan is interesting. I am always up to watch his type of player. Not expecting much but good work by Leon I think make these deals.
ESPN (https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47909248/source-jazz-jaren-jackson-jr-season-ending-surgery):
Utah Jazz forward Jaren Jackson Jr. will have surgery to remove a growth in his left knee, the team announced Thursday.
Jackson, a two-time All-Star acquired from the Memphis Grizzlies in a blockbuster deal at the trade deadline, will miss the remainder of the season, sources told ESPN. He is expected to be cleared well in advance of training camp, sources said.
The growth — a pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) — was discovered in an MRI during a physical after he was traded to the Jazz from the Grizzlies on Feb. 3.
Uh huh.
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