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11 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2026.06.23)”
I’m officially worried about the Knicks offseason. Judging by yesterday’s trades, these aprons have teams shook. Randle was an obvious salary dump, and Milwaukee clearly took the lesser package between Miami and Boston. I thought for sure they’d wanna retool around a star, but they smartly went for flexibility in this apron era. But who’s gonna want to play for them with the roster they have?
Julius has been a negative asset or negative asset-adjacent for quite a number of years now.
Re Giannis trade – I for one am a bit worried about the Heat. Spo is obviously an awesome coach. Their defense should be absolutely elite with Davion Mitchell, Wiggins, Powell, Bam, Giannis. Mitchell/Wiggins/Powell all shot about 40% from 3 last year, and while Bam is not a great 3 point shooter, I imagine Spo will figure something out to make the spacing tenable. Wiggins has turned into a really good 3 point shooter (~39% from 3 over his last 1900 attempts). And I still don’t understand the Clippers trading Powell to the Heat for.. John Collins?!?
I think their depth is… ok? Even without whatever vets minimums they can convince to live in Miami and play with Giannis?
Pelle Larson is ok
Fontecchio is fine off the bench
Portis is a proven player
Jovic seems to have had a bad year last year but was a promising player at one point.
They probably need another ball handling guard they can trust – someone like Braden Smith in the 2nd round as a high floor low ceiling guy who can just play basketball and annoyingly turn into Peyton Pritchard.
Re: Diawara – this is absolutely a home run. Allows us to in theory stay under 2nd apron if that’s what Leon wants although it probably means one of Shamet or Mitch are gone. tbh I love Mitch but the injury thing is always going to be there in addition to whatever mental health stuff was going on this year, the hack-a-mitch stuff… have to wonder whether the 15 min he gives you could be mostly covered by Hukporti + someone. I thought Huk looked very good in the limited minutes he played.
Of course I’d love Mitch back and to retire a Knick, but if we have to choose between him and Shamet I might choose the latter.
Re the apron, the difference between us and those teams is that those teams are still trying to get their rosters to championship level. Ours is literally already there. Running it back doesn’t guarantee a repeat, but we know that this combination of guys can get it done. So if we lose flexibility for a year or two, it matters much less to us than it does a Minnesota, who still don’t quite have the right group of players around Ant.
Offline points to Frank. This morning, I sent him this video of Julius’ son Kyden (who, when he was much smaller, was seen in a video sobbing over how much he hated the Nets):
https://x.com/NetsKingdomAJ/status/2069277524073292012?s=20
His reply: “Hostage video.”
So any guesses as to how many picks we actually end up making?
How many at our current draft slots?
If Giannis is healthy the Heat are going to be very good. Betting Spo and Riley will load manage him, banking that they can still be a lower seed team and have him healthy for the playoffs.
Did they? If you really love Brown sure but I like Miami’s package better. More picks and players I can develop or package in a trade later.
Do teams still do draft and stash? I feel like I’d we make more than one pick it’ll be for a foreign player not expected to come over right away.
I’m expecting some sort of mild char tonight with 24. Something more than a quick, hot sear; something less than an incineration.
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