NY Knicks Pick watch

It would be best served in the next 11 and a half hours but it's not something I think will happen. I think when you have a guy who is proving himself to be the most potent offensive weapon in the league that you can't waste time but I've been around long enough to know that these guys (NBA execs) feel that they have to be measured. So despite the incredibly bold moves made in the last couple of days around the NBA, I don't think Joe will do the right thing, I think he'll continue to hedge his bets.

 

Joe probably keeps this pick thinking we'll make the playoffs lose our pick to the bulls but still have a first round pick with the Knicks making the playoffs.

 

wonder if the Bulls would take the Knicks pick and give ours back?

 

I almost expect it.

 

Big Win for the Knicks tonight against the Hawks. Right now they are at P6. I'm confident that they can overtake the Nets in the standings. Hopefully Randle, Brunson, Barrett and Hart can keep this

 

We don't want them to finish too high. We want them to be the #8 seed in the East.

 

Part of me agrees, but other part doesn't want to deal with the stress of the play in game, and us not getting the pick. Rather the 21st pick than 4 2nds later.

 

Is there much of a difference? If we make the playoffs then won't our pick be about the same as if the Knicks make the playoffs? I think we have a good chance of having two 1st round picks this year. Of course, then we can debate for months if we trade or keep them.

 

The worst scenario is:

We make the playoffs, we getting swept in the 1st round.

Knicks miss the Playoffs, we only get 5 2nds

 

If we make the playoffs, we won't have our own 1st. It goes to Chicago thanks to that idiot Olshey

 

I absolutely do not trust NYK to win any play-in games lol. Pick #22 is perfectly fine with me, especially in this draft class.

 

So instead of lottery-protected it's playoff-protected? WTF??

 

That's pretty much the same, no? If you are in the playoffs, you are not in the lottery and vice versa...

 

True, but I don't think we will make the playoffs. I think everyone ahead of us will make it except maybe one team. And the Lakers if healthy will move ahead of us. But we can't make any trades until after our season ends....so we will know if we get to keep our pick.

The only way I trade NYs pick to Chicago in order to make sure we keep our own pick is if we make the playoffs and NY does not.
Ideally (besides having a great run after the break) is if we get our pick and NY's pick and we have the option to trade both for a player that makes us better next year.

 

I look forward to combining those two first-round picks into the 2023 version of Zach Collins.

 

We have a different GM and Mike Schmitz in the FO. I suspect there is a chance it will be better utilized.

 

I was just making a cheap joke.

 

Chet Holmgren was in last year's draft.

What? Too soon?

 

I wonder what he weighs now?