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48 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2025.06.26)”
Who’s pumped to wait for the 50th pick?!?!
Or at least, who’s pumped to see what weird trades Brock Aller executes to move us up and down in the second round.
I am!!!
Just read the Chinese kid was supposed to go in the second round. Could end up being one of the worst picks in a long time and I find that exciting.
That New Orleans trade also seems really really terrible.
Hansen Yang is one of the more “I simply do not see it” picks in recent memory for me personally. I think he’s an NBA player, but I just see a backup center who plays for 10 teams. I’ll be rooting for him though!
I am still in utter shock that New Orleans, coming off a 21-61 season, traded an unprotected 2026 first to move up 10 spots in a middling draft. I don’t have the words for it. I’m not sure we ever did anything that insane under Isiah or Phil or Layden or anyone else.
Noble, with you on that. Was so confused by all the crazy (and seemingly terrible) decision-making last night that I gave up and have been trying to make sense of it all this morning. Much of it I can’t.
On the one hand it’s kind of sad, as it seems the bad teams are not getting better for the most part (and may be getting worse). On the other hand, if we do decide to try some trades later on, it does suggest some very weak-thinking front offices out there…
I will admit to enjoying Brock Allier’s draft day wheeling and dealing, fingers crossed he pulls some shenanigans to move up or get another pick.
I guess the boon of a two day draft is that we don’t have to wait all 50 pick just for Leon to trade out of the draft. I did miss Dylan Harper’s mom though.
Yang pick is weird. I guess you can’t teach big. Happy 20th birthday today, quite a present from Portland.
Maybe with Sorber on board for OKC, we can get iHart back given they now have one too many players.
Kidding, but a girl can dream…
agreed
Knicks 2025 says:
June 25, 2025 at 21:56
sorber will be pretty good let us get ihart back they do not need him anymore joke
The Athletic has a Mock Round Two up!
With the 50th pick in 2025 NBA Draft, the New York Knicks select Johni Broome from Auburn University.
Hey! Maybe Charles Barkley would ease up on us a little.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6450435/2025/06/26/nba-mock-draft-round-2-kam-jones-tyrese-proctor/
Athletic from previous link:
Broome is coming off a terrific fifth season where he was the runner-up for national player of the year because of his physicality and ability to establish position on the interior. He also has the potential to shoot it and is sharp positionally on defense. However, he’s a bit slow and is undersized in a way that concerns teams.
In the past I would’ve had very strong opinions as to who we should take at #50, but I’ve been burned too many times by trade outs and stashes and the like. So I’ll just say my favorite guys remaining are Thiero, Fleming, Martin, Markovic, and a Summit league guy I can’t quit by the name of Jacksen Moni.
It does seem likely we make a pick somewhere because if we want to avoid the second apron and/or be able to use the TPMLE, we have to really cheap out on some of the last roster spots and second round picks are the easiest way to do that.
Broome does seem more likely than most to be able to give you emergency NBA minutes in 2025-2026, but I don’t love the track record of guys who dominated their college team’s offense and then had to transition to a fraction of that role in the NBA.
Yeah TFNH basically summed up my feelings on Broome (and the draft as it pertains to the Knicks at this stage).
I only want shooters, so Lanier, Brea, Tonje, and Peavy all seem fine to me.
Re: the idiot Blazers, now that they have seven centers, maybe Hubie man-crush Duop Reath will finally shake loose?? Dare to dream…
Reath and Dink Pate also have me wondering what a Funny Name All-NBA team would be?
I don’t care who they pick and what position he plays, but he better be able able to play defense.
The various pundits are all beating up the Nets for 1)Using all five of their picks rather than trying to consolidate for a trade up, or flipping one or more for future assets, and 2)Taking three point guards. Reminds me a little of Minnesota taking Rubio and Johnny Flynn back to back, though it doesn’t seem like there’s a Steph Curry that the Nets passed on with any of their choices.
I feel like Maluach should have been an easy decision for them. They went in totally the opposite direction.
yeah jonny flynn was picked #6 and played only around 3700 regular season minutes in the nba he actually had a decent rookie season fifth in roy voting but then dropped off a cliff quickly as they moved to rubio instead
It’s not exactly grading on a curve, but all the Leon critics should look at NO and Portland and the Suns and the Nets and acknowledge that at least we aren’t THAT anymore.
I mean, NO especially is setting the land speed record for incompetence…
Nets definitely should have picked Malauch at #8. Then they could get tons of assets for Claxton. They got Traore later on (he was mocked top-5 at the beginning of the season), which was a really good PG pick IMO. Demin is going to be worthless unless he learns to shoot.
No team except OKC wants to do the proper rebuild for some reason.
A wise man once said, “Whether you like it, or don’t like it, learn to love it, ’cause it is the best thing going today. Woo!”
If we pick Jhoni Broome, then after we sweep someone in the playoffs we can just have him run all over the court
(sorry, couldn’t resist)
Don’t let Pelinka outmaneuver you, Brock!
yeah jonny flynn was picked #6 and played only around 3700 regular season minutes in the nba he actually had a decent rookie season fifth in roy voting but then dropped off a cliff quickly as they moved to rubio instead
It isn’t easy to trade for a promising young player that turns out to be way better than even you imagined and ultimately wins the MVP. Without that, they’d still be rebuilding or trying to convince some superstar to go to OKC and be their #1 option (which still might not be enough given they went 7 games twice with the actual MVP and both times the other team was less than 100% ).
There’s a lot of luck involved.
The projected #45 pick is Kobe Sanders.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6450435/2025/06/26/nba-mock-draft-round-2-kam-jones-tyrese-proctor/
This could be like when Scott Layden chose Mike Sweetney and told the interviewer, “it worked out pretty well the last time we picked a big man from Georgetown!”
You just got Pelink’d!
The other issue Flynn had was that he was more of a traditional PG but in the first couple of seasons Rambis was wasting him trying to turn him into a triangle guard. It was the opposite of wasting time trying to make Frank a PG even though he should be off ball because he had no handle.
Because of our situation I didn’t really follow the draft this year so I have nothing to say about the players or the picks, but that Chinese kid had a great suit.
The pelicans gave up an unprotected pick last night and some of you guys actually believe Leon Rose can’t make a good trade this summer for Mikal Bridges. Pretty unbelievable.
Hollinger:
Does Dieng count as OAKAAK?
Btw I say it’s pretty remarkable that Leon couldn’t get that Bridges trade done with one ‘24 pick and one ‘25 pick instead of two ‘25 picks. As if Brooklyn was really going to walk away from one of the greatest robberies of all time if he got one small concession.
“The pelicans gave up an unprotected pick last night and some of you guys actually believe Leon Rose can’t make a good trade this summer for Mikal Bridges. Pretty unbelievable.”
Weren’t we recently discussing Joe Dumars’ record after being given the job with the Pelicans. I’m pretty I was arguing it wasn’t a very good move.
Leon’s still trying to figure out a way to get him to NY.
i believe that a player has to play at least one nba minute for the knicks in order to be oakaak
The 2nd round used to have a late-show at the Improv feel to it, with Russ Granik mugging for a drunker-by-the-minute crowd, so I get that they wanted to make a change, but, c’mon, there can’t be more than 6 or 7 people in the country that are going to tune in to live television just for picks 31-60.
Dumars has made a believer out of me, Hubie. There are enough “new Isiahs” out there that anything is possible. Mikal for Zion, here we come!
as usual tho we did not strike while the iron was hot to work over some dumb gm and now our chances are much more diminished to do so
Having not thought about it or caring much at all, I am feeling like I’d rather have a shooter at 50 — wing or guard, or a big but that’s unlikely — than just another big, given we have Mitch and Huk and Precious, not to mention KAT. I have an odd feeling that Precious won’t be with us for long, but even so a late second round rookie big isn’t likely to be that useful in Year 1. Or 2.
yeah i like what we did last year when we drafted guys who could actually develop and be useful such as kolek and huk now we just have to actually play and develop them
Raven, I’m with you, unless the plan is to trade Mitch for help elsewhere on the roster. In which case Huk is now the backup center and we need more depth at that position. If the plan is to keep KAT and Mitch, and to play KAT at center at least part of the time, we very much don’t need another Jericho Sims type on the 15-man.
I’d really love to pick up Larry Nance Jr. He’s hurt a lot, but that’s why we could get him – and when he’s healthy he’s a good player. Mich better then Precious.
Or Al Horford, but that seems pie in the sky.
Draft thought of the day:
I have always disliked pick-protections, but I understood why teams would want them. With the newly flattened lottery, though, I feel like the league should get rid of them altogether, save for maybe a “top 1” protection. Protections as they are make tracking this stuff nearly
impossible, complicate the trade machine, and punishes future generations of fans. That is all.
I’ve argued this as well, Donnie. The question is whether such a change could be applied retroactively, and whether that would be fair.
it would definitely not be fair to apply that retroactively which is almost always the case teams can only make decisions operating under the rules in place at the time they make those decisions
Why would it need to be retroactive? Just stop the practice for all future trades and the current protections will phase out.
Such an obvious joke, but so good:
https://x.com/getmoneyjord/status/1938286855222337602
If we buy a second rounder, it caps us at the second apron. But as Katz said on his podcast the other day, the Knicks probably don’t want to go into the second apron this year, anyway, so it’s not that big a deal. Unless, that is, the miracle scenario happens at midseason and Giannis or someone of that level says they only want to be traded to the Knicks. And then we can’t go over the second apron to make such a deal happen.
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