Knicks Morning News (2026.07.04)

I’m feeling better about Andre.

He’s not Mitch on defense but he will provide the rebounding Mitch gave us. He’s a good screen setter and is now a decent shooter. He’ll make the occasional corner three and won’t kill us at the line.

In a limited role he’ll be fine. He actually had to do a lot last season backing up Embiid and performed pretty well in that role, so I think here he’ll be fine.

But we need another center for sure. And I think the more I think about it I’d like us to grab another vet for vet minimum and maybe get looney or Richards.

I just don’t like the idea of having to trade deuce. I think having deuce and Shamet (and Clarkson) is a very nice luxury to have off the bench. It gives brown options to play the hot hand.

Similarly with Drummond and another veteran big brown will have options to throw out there. If we can get a third big who is an upgrade over Huk then the sum of those two guys could be equal or better than Mitch and Huk bc it will give brown some line up flexibility.

Or maybe that third “big” is Sochan?

Then grab lebron. Yes I’m going to keep mentioning it until it does or doesn’t happen.