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Knicks Morning News (2025.09.10)

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    SUNY Purchase has a great summer program for high school students interested in songwriting and performing. The students get divided into groups (bands), write music together, create images for an album cover, and perform together. They learn music production basics. My daughter loved the experience and other parents appreciated how fun the collaboration was compared with the usual solitary music making that their teens engaged in.

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    Not Knicks related, but by pure happenstance yesterday I ate in a very peculiar brazilian restaurant in Munich that’s owned and operated by Tristan Da Silva’s father (which in fact is the de facto waiter and bartender).

    Weird NBA coincidence, extremely good cachaça tasting percourse.

    Poor Malcolm Brogdon. Two years ago he ran away with The Sixth Man of the Year award. Now, fans would rather discuss indy music than think about the prospect of him joining their team on a small contract.

    Here in LA, there are fewer venues than there used to be, and the venues that do exist have bookers that are solely interested in an artist’s social media numbers. This creates a system where bands and artists are incentivized to always be pumping up those social media stats. This leads to some pretty gross behavior all around. I have former friends who I just can’t deal with anymore because of the endless social media engagement attempts.

    There’s a comedian who talked about being the emcee of a comedy club event of a social media “star”. The star had a channel where they appeared as different characters and would just say the same line over and over again. The star arrives and is a complete jerk to the emcee. The crowd is packed. Emcee is excepting to do a few minutes in between acts. Turns out the influencer didn’t really prepare an act. They just appeared on stage in one character said the catch phrases, then walked off. It would take them 10-15 minutes to change into another character. So the emcee is basically stuck doing like an hour of standup, with the influencer coming out every 15 minutes for a minute of relief.

    They comedian was talking about how these social media stars struggle outside of anything with an editing room.

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    I wish I had that kind of technology when I was younger, but on the other hand I played a lot of music in rehearsal spaces with other people, learned how to listen to other people play and coexist with them. I gained skills that you just don’t gain if you’re not playing with other people.

    My eldest called me from college where she’s staying in the dorm. She said she was inside her room with the door closed. And I asked Wait why aren’t you like hanging out with everyone else in the hallway or something? I told her at least she had to leave her door open. She said no one else leaves a door open. And she walked down the hall and showed me out of the 20 or 30 rooms only one other person had the door open.

    I have the exact opposite experience in college. No one closed their doors, except for like maybe one person and the foreign exchange students.

    Everyone just kind of walked the halls and spoke to each other, hung out in the end whole lounge, or hung out in our common area.

    I don’t want to be that old guy, but kids today live in a different world. From a very young kid, I had to interact with people buy stuff from the store, ask people questions. But kids today don’t have that much social interaction, and they seem nervous when doing so. Much like during my time you were forced to be interacting with people constantly, today’s kids are forced not to. So we all develop different skills.

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    Macri’s newsletter today suggested that Roman Sorkin is someone we could be looking at for our rookie minimum contract. But that clashes with what PT and others have said about how that slot has to go to someone the team has draft rights to. I guess we’ll see who’s right.

    It looks like Sorkin played four years at Oregon and averaged 2 points per game on 46% shooting but I guess he’s 29 now and his game has matured a lot.

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    I doubt whoever gets that slot will play much, barring a lot of injuries. That said, it’s interesting that they’d be going for a big man. Last year, we had no power forwards — or, at least, no power forward-sized power forwards. This year, if you assume we do a lot of twin towers lineups, then that’s KAT’s primary position, and we have Yabu, and we might have Sorkin. And obviously, OG can play very well there in lots of lineup combinations, even if it’s maybe not the ideal use of his skillset.

    Yeah I sorta don’t care either way about Sorkin. I’d primarily like to add another shooter (Shamet?) and anything after that is gravy.

    How many caipirinhas , Farfa?

    I’ve been making these at home, because it’s a good lazy drink. But I find if you don’t shake them, you’re drinking two shots of alcohol and then sugary-limeade. (Not that it’s a bad thing, but still…) Traditional method is to stir them, not shake.

    Any tips?

    I don’t want to be that old guy, but kids today live in a different world. From a very young kid, I had to interact with people buy stuff from the store, ask people questions. But kids today don’t have that much social interaction, and they seem nervous when doing so.

    KB, I have 3 kids born in 1989, 2000 and 2002 and the difference between the oldest and the two younger is stunning.

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    Page 180 of the CBA:

    with respect to a Standard NBA Contract between a Team and a Free Agent with zero (0) Years of Service or one (1) Year of Service, the amount (if any) by which (x) the Minimum Player Salary that would be applicable to a player with two
    (2) Years of Service as set forth in the Minimum Annual Salary Scale… exceeds (y) the Salary attributable to such Standard NBA Contract.

    Definitions Section:

    “Standard NBA Contract” means a Contract other than a
    Two-Way Contract.

    (bb) “Free Agent” means: (i) a Veteran Free Agent; (ii) a Rookie Free
    Agent; (iii) a Veteran whose Player Contract has been terminated in accordance with the NBA waiver procedure; or (iv) a player whose last Player Contract was a 10-Day Contract and who either completed the Contract by rendering the playing services called for thereunder or was released early from such Contract.

    (ggg) “Rookie Free Agent” means: (i) a Draft Rookie who, pursuant
    to the provisions of Article VIII, Section 3 or Article X, is no longer subject to the exclusive negotiating rights of any Team, and who may be signed by any Team; or (ii) a Non-Draft Rookie.

    The short version is that we can’t sign Sorkin and another vet FA unless we cut salary elsewhere.

    The slightly longer version is that 2nd Rd draft picks do not count as free agents for the purposes of aggregating salary to determine if we exceed the apron, but other players signed to the minimum do count.

    Because they’re free agents, undrafted rookie players like Sorkin must be counted at least as much as a 2yr vet minimum against the apron. As a non-FA, 2nd Rd draft picks do not need to be counted as a 2yr vet minimum salary.

    Note: If you go look at page 180, it will appear under the section for team tax calculation. Instead of re-writing it for the apron calculation as well, they say to refer to the calculation method of the tax calculation. Presumably this is to avoid a mistake in re-writing that would lead to a different result. Anyways, the point is that the language above controls.

    Thanks for that EB. Just to make sure I understand it, that’s why Rokas, as a 2nd, could take the slot…

    Sorkin on his last 294 3pt shots for Tel Aviv across all leagues is shooting .391. Last season it was on 2.6atts/36 and this season on 4.5atts/36.

    Idk, could be a get as floor-stretching big. I’d probably want to start him on a 2-way since he has zero experience, which might be difficult to swing financially.

    Ess, it was really fun and the music they recorded and performed at the end of the 2 weeks was surprisingly good.

    Thanks for that EB. Just to make sure I understand it, that’s why Rokas, as a 2nd, could take the slot…

    Yes, that’s my understanding.

    We can only use that salary slot on players we have 2nd round draft rights for: Rokas, Diawara, Besson, Nnaji, or one of the 12 players we have rights to that are 30+ years old and I’m not going to bother listing.

    Realistically, Rokas already paid a buyout to Tel Aviv in order to move to a German team. It would be weird if we waited till after that transaction to acquire him and likely pay a much higher buyout.

    But also Rokas is out for most of this season, so it makes no sense to pay him so he can rehab here. Unless the team is planning to trade some of our guard depth and wants Rokas for next season?

    Knicks have hired the head coach at St Joseph’s to oversee Knicks player development. Besides being a college head coach he was an asst with the 76ers and under Jay Wright in Villanova.

    Yeah, sorry just using Rokas as an example as he was the first name of a 2nd that came to mind…finally becomes a possibility because of the new CBA, plays well at least for one game but an important one, then tears up his left knee (as a lefty does that matter?) and stuck in neutral at best.

    Over 4 games, Rokas per 36 numbers in EuroBasket:
    25.7pts (#10 per 36)
    12.7ast (#1 per 36, not counting Balsa Zivanovic with 49.1asts/36 on 0.7min)

    3.7rebs
    2.2stls (#23 per 36, for players over 10mpg)
    5.2TOs (#5 per 36, for players over 10mpg)

    Per game:
    17.3ppg (#14)
    8.5apg (#1, over Luka who played 9min more per game)

    1.5spg (T-14 w/Franz Wagner, Nurkic, Fontecchio & Okobo[?])
    3.5TOs (#6)

    Keep in mind the talent level in Eurobasket varies wildly. Playing in a weak pool can elevate your numbers pretty drastically. He also shot 55% from 3, so his scoring would drop a bit in the longrun.

    sorkin at 39 percent on 3s is kind of impressive regardless but id be at least a little surprised if he ever dresses for us

    Knicks have hired the head coach at St Joseph’s to oversee Knicks player development. Besides being a college head coach he was an asst with the 76ers and under Jay Wright in Villanova.

    This is weird, because Begley says that “Lange will not have a role on the Knick coaching staff.” How do you oversee player development without being on the staff?

    Wondered if Craig Robinson was on the Knicks coaching staff since he had a similar role. Hate AI, but haven’t disabled it in goo.gle. Said he wasn’t. Likely answer is he was.

    A friend today asked Google to name some of the saddest TV moments ever. The AI mentioned the time that The Office killed off Michael Scott.

    It’s trash. Never use it for searching anything.

    My 17 year old recently informed me that Cal Poly is harder to get into than UCLA. She showed me the Google AI source she was using: it said “Cal Poly has a 30% acceptance rate whereas UCLA has a 10% acceptance rate; therefore Cal Poly is more competitive and harder to get into.”

    Wondered if Craig Robinson was on the Knicks coaching staff since he had a similar role. Hate AI, but haven’t disabled it in goo.gle. Said he wasn’t. Likely answer is he was.

    “Why would the actor from Hot Tub Time Machine coach the Knicks?” -Google

    For what it’s worth, I’ve had some people tell me Google’s search AI is a particularly example of AI, which strikes me as odd, but I haven’t used others enough to know. I suspect they’re all pretty iffy still.

    I’ve been making these at home, because it’s a good lazy drink. But I find if you don’t shake them, you’re drinking two shots of alcohol and then sugary-limeade. (Not that it’s a bad thing, but still…) Traditional method is to stir them, not shake.

    Any tips?

    Sorry, Mike K, i don’t know how to do it. I just drink it! 😛
    Maybe if Bruno is around, he can help.

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