Knicks land ideal Phil Jackson guard in Post’s mock draft 3.0
The NBA season isn’t over, thanks to the thrilling Finals between the Warriors and Cavaliers now being split through two games, but that hasn’t stopped the steadily increasing drumbeat of...
View ArticleJay Bilas on hidden draft busts — and Mudiay’s ‘dynamic’ potential
Jay Bilas remembers watching a Darko Milicic workout before the 2003 NBA Draft: “Holy cow, is this guy good.” And the popular ESPN analyst was far from alone. Milicic, who...
View ArticleNBA mock draft 4.0: Knicks’ dream path to Jahlil Okafor
We’re now officially into the NBA’s silly season. There’s nothing like the days between the end of the NBA Finals and the NBA Draft: rumors are flying, players and teams...
View ArticleKnicks’ dream draft week is here: 4 trends to watch for
After months of waiting, NBA draft week finally has arrived. For Knicks fans, this is what they have been waiting for since about the start of December, when it was...
View ArticleFinal NBA mock draft: Will Knicks stay safe or pull wild trade?
The big day has finally arrived. After weeks of build-up and preparations for this year’s NBA Draft – for the Knicks, several months’ worth – it will finally be time...
View ArticleMudiay? Winslow? Trade down for Bledsoe? Knicks on the clock
Phil Jackson will be on the clock Thursday night but may be picking for another team at No. 4 as the Knicks explore trade scenarios big and small. If 19-year-old...
View ArticleWhy this NBA draft is so thrilling, excruciating for Knicks fans
First, the good news: There are a lot of very good, very intriguing and very young players who will be selected Thursday night when the NBA conducts its draft. You...
View ArticleHow LeBron inspired this NBA prospect’s $9,000 draft-night suit
When Emmanuel Mudiay was 10 years old, he and his two older brothers would pretend they were hosting their very own NBA draft in their Texas home, even videotaping their...
View ArticleFactors behind Lakers’ Russell pick, and 14 other draft revelations
Another NBA Draft has come and gone, Barclays Center playing host to yet another night full of twists and turns as 60 players saw their dreams realized by being selected....
View ArticleEmmanuel Mudiay relieved he avoided Knicks’ triangle
Nuggets rookie point guard Emmanuel Mudiay told confidants after the draft he was, in retrospect, happy the Knicks passed on him at No. 4, as he was unsure he would...
View ArticleJackson hints Knicks would’ve taken Okafor with No. 1 pick
The consensus prior to the NBA draft lottery was had the Knicks lucked out and won the top pick, they would’ve selected Karl-Anthony Towns. But in his latest sit-down with...
View ArticleNBA GMs knock down Kristaps Porzingis’ potential
The Knicks were invisible in the NBA GM prediction survey released Tuesday – and no slight was bigger than the one directed at 7-foot-3 rookie Kristaps Porzingis. Five players received votes for Rookie...
View ArticleFearless NBA predictions: LeBron, Davis and a new champ
The NBA season tips off in T-minus six hours, with a megawatt Cavaliers-Bulls matchup (and Pistons-Hawks, too) followed by the defending champion Warriors getting their rings and taking on the...
View ArticleWhich NBA rookies already look like they belong
The NBA season got in full swing Wednesday night and the highly hyped rookie class was in the spotlight. There were some star-studded performances and some duds. Here are the ones that stood out:...
View ArticleOpposite starts by Mudiay, Russell gets NBA chirping
Can the Lakers have a do-over? It’s just four games, a ridiculously tiny sample size, but Nuggets rookie point guard Emmanuel Mudiay is outplaying D’Angelo Russell, the player the Lakers took second...
View ArticleKnicks to see firsthand ‘phenomenal’ PG they could’ve had
Though the Knicks are desperate for a point guard, nobody has come close to suggesting president Phil Jackson didn’t nail it in taking 7-foot-3 Kristaps Porzingis over Emmanuel Mudiay with the fourth...
View ArticleHow loophole to skip college for NBA may shift NCAA landscape
Thon Maker and Terrance Ferguson were supposed to figure prominently in the next college basketball season, two five-star prospects expected to produce for established powers. Instead, their unorthodox...
View ArticleFrank Kaminsky to meet with Knicks next week: source
The best player in college basketball, whom some Knicks fans would like to see them trade down in the draft in order to snatch, 7-foot senior Frank Kaminsky, is tentatively scheduled to meet with the...
View ArticleMudiay’s bonding session with Fisher gets him thinking Knicks
LOS ANGELES — Even if Emmanuel Mudiay doesn’t end up with the Knicks, he still plans on picking Derek Fisher’s brain about being an NBA point guard. Mudiay got a crash course in the triangle offense...
View Article‘Best young point guard I’d ever seen’: Mudiay’s trek from Africa war to NBA
It was as his mother intended — a world with plentiful options, an existence where no choice truly could be considered a bad choice. Emmanuel Mudiay could go to any town and find immediate embrace,...
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