Miles McBride, PG [21]
Quentin Grimes, SG/SF [21]
RJ Barrett, SG/SF [21]
Feron Hunt, SF/PF [22]
Immanuel Quickley, PG/SG [22]
Cam Reddish, SF/PF [22]
Jericho Sims, C [23]
Mitchell Robinson, C [24]
Obi Toppin, PF/C [24]
Julius Randle, PF/C [27]
That's ten young players.
Even assuming Mitchell is a goner and Julius is old[er], that makes 8 players under the age of 24.
Rokas Jokubaitis, PG, was drafted at #34, two spots ahead of McBride, and he will be 22 in November. So presumably the Knicks have some plans for him.
That makes ELEVEN Young players.
So where exactly are you going to slot in that extra draft pick, Fac?
The Knicks traded their #19 pick to Charlotte, and packaged the 2022 pick they were supposed to get back [if Charlotte finhsed out of the Bottom 18] with Kevin Knox to get back Cam Reddish. Someone in the Knicks hierarchy thought quite a lot of Reddish's upside.
And we got Jericho Sims with the #58 pick, harvested from Philly in the multi team trade which shipped out Austin Rivers.
SO IT AIN'T JUST ABOUT Stockpiling #1 picks. Although, yes, great assets to accumulate, and we spent one to dump Knox and turn him into Reddish.
The argument that there are multiple TEN YEAR players in this draft is neither here nor there, if there isn't even room on the roster for them, let alone for them to fight their way into Thibs rotation.
Remains to be seen how Neon Leon & Company reshuffle.
Joakim Noah comes off the books this summer. So that's 6.4 million to play with, and the different middle class excepitions.
But no cap space until the summer of 2023.
Kemba in on his way out for sure.
But Julius? Rose? Fournier? Burks? Noel? Are any of them in play?
Do we make a fair offer to Mitchell? Or is he dangled in a sign and trade?
Do we make a run at Brunson? Do we have a shot? Would have to be some kind of sign and trade, as we lack cap space until next summer. CANNOT FATHOM HOW DALLAS LETS HIM WALK.
So any and all trade projections from the logical to the absurd, are pretty much on ice. We have no idea who is in play, who we might draft, or if we even keep our #1 pick.