With the 4th Overall Pick, The Knicks Take… Who?
The New York Knicks are in the unenviable position of wanting to win right now but needing a to improve at just about every position in order to do so. There probably isn’t another team so ill-equipped to make a playoff run that is not trying to rebuild. Carmelo Anthony, at the age where most players hit their physical peak, is surrounded by a cast with little NBA experience and that Knicks fans would be hard pressed to be able to name. But yet, he is under contract until 2019 so it seems like the team is committed to winning with him. So with the goal of winning now, you’d think the Knicks would try and fill out the team with rookies ready to contribute immediately, right?
Well, in one of the deepest drafts in recent memory and with the highest pick the team has had since 1985, the New York Knicks selected Kristaps Porzingis, a 19-year old 7’1” Latvian who played
