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11 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2026.06.24)”
Could not watch the draft. First time in years. Strange thread as what we expected to unfold unfolded. I kind of liked the Spanish kid but in Brock I trust.
Also, Donnie, indigo Park is definitely a high lottery pick for me this year, although it’s pretty weird and has a few tracks I don’t like. The Wallace Stevens shout out really activated my college poet self
I’ll explain to folks how being over provides more flexibility than being under:
Being over the second apron gives you a soft cap. You can keep your roster together, retain your own players, and even afford your first-round picks. You have more assets, you just can’t aggregate them.
Staying under the second apron gives you a self-imposed hard cap. It forces you to shed talent, let good players walk, and sometimes even dump picks because you can’t afford the contracts attached to them. You have fewer assets, but the freedom to aggregate what’s left.
We’re constantly told the team under the apron has “more flexibility.” But flexibility to do what? The team over the apron has the players and the assets. The team under it can’t even afford to pay a first round pick.
Dolan is a real cunt for this. God knows where he got this idea from. Probably someone at McKinsey again.
With a couple marginal exceptions, they haven’t first-round drafted since the first year Leon got here.
Repeating — the real question is how long the second apron mandate has been in place.
Not sure why you think that’s the real question. It never made sense to go over the second apron before.
Top o’ the mornin’, gents.
By the way, Clarence would like a word.
Because, among other things, it means that getting to a point where they knew they couldn’t draft was knowing, rather than accidental. And the “front loading” (*) of the future into the present therefore looks even more pronounced.
It’s one thing to not be able to draft and have to throw assets overboard haphazardly if ownership springs it on you last minute; it’s quite another thing if you’ve known all along.
(*) Actually, there’s no need for quotation marks there. Reads and communicates fine without them.
The only asset we’ve thrown overboard so far is our first round pick and we did get five second round picks in return. I hope we don’t have to throw anything else overboard.
We didn’t throw anything overboard. We shedded salary so we can bring dudes back, we turned one late first round pick into 5 second round picks and we picked up half a million dollars.
Shams says Knicks intend to move 31.
I’d probably take Isaiah Evans right now.
Baba Miller is the most interesting (not necessarily best) player for me: 6’11” with great rebounding and passing numbers. A solid handle. But is really skinny and can’t shoot at all.
A couple of other players I like:
* Aaron Nkrumah, Wing — Lots of steals. Decent 3p%. Small school.
* Tamin Lipsey, PG — Lots of steals. Holds onto the ball. Shooting?
* Ugonna Onyenso, C — Shotblocking… and, uh, a lot of shotblocking
* Brazile, PF — Can shoot. Explosive. Bad player & old but has tools.
* Nate Bittle, C — Shot-blocker & shooter. Slow & injury history.
They just threw the 24th pick in the draft overboard. No one seriously believes they’re actually going to use all five of those 2s — which isn’t close to sufficient value anyway. Memphis pulled in five 2s for moving down five spots in the first round.
They essentially incinerated the pick. If people want to quibble about the term, then ok, they deeply charred it.
The great irony of all this is that is that moving your first round pick to the end of the round is the worst penalty for staying over the second apron 🤣
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