Official '24-25 NY Knicks Offseason Thread

[Wargames]

This league sucks man. It’s insane how poorly ran it is. Legit punishing teams for being too good or willing to do what it takes to win.

I still think the owners were mad at KD to the warriors and made that 2nd apron out of spite and the financial penalty is so strict it’s forcing the owners that rely on team ownership for their wealth to sell their teams.

It’s a cut your nose to spite your face situation.

 

[RickyGQ]

2025 NBA Draft: Dink Pate Scouting Report

Evaluating the Mexico City Capitanes prospect ahead of the 2025 NBA Draft.

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Another raw project. Though I could see them putting him on a two way and sending him back to the G-League for a year.

Yup. Just need one or two of these kids to pan into a legit rotational player.

 

[In The Zone '98]

They cloned Nick Young

Good luck to the boi

 

[RickyGQ]

They cloned Nick Young

Good luck to the boi

Was gonna say the same thing lol

 

[Peter Popoff]

We have the worse luck with French players

Please Dadiet break the curse

Nıgga ain't French but I'm looking at Dink Pate....

Bruh, if we can get someone nearly close as athletic as the Thompson twins at 6'7-6'8 that plays 2 way and young.....

Pair that shıt with a coach that makes brings out the best in its players (including enforcing Mikal to focus solely on them midranges then switch to D )....

We'd be aight. Shıts gonna be mad tough off season.

 

[storyteller]

Pate is a project but with great measurables and athleticism.

Diawara...I don't picture him working out. I'd have much rather drafted Saliou Niang who went 58th to Cleveland. He's another draft and stash wing with great athleticism, but his development has been really clear already.

I would have been REALLY happy with Kobe Sanders. He's 6'7 but could play point forward in a pinch, with an advanced midrange game that felt translatable even if he plays a bit slower than you'd like to see.

Kevin Smith was on KFTV, and he was talking about how few teams have spending money this offseason. The teams with cap space have to worry about re-signing their own players. He implied it's brooklyn with cap space...and that's it. So, the Knicks could have more options with minimum contract offers than you might expect. The MLE and vet's minimum might turn out really valuable for a team that's primed to contend in an East whose top two teams suffered Achilles injuries to their stars.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Worst fear has been realized. Thibs had the backing of Brunson and Leon Rose but Dolan decided to overrule and fire him. Dolan is back with his ways.

 

[ISO]

I guess Diawara is a stash with great measurables and some raw potential might never pan out but saves us cap space.

Dink Pate is supposed to be the under the radar “1st round value” guy that’s undrafted. shyt man one of he or Dadiet going to have to be something long term. Neither of these guys can shoot. Every young player we have outside of Kolek is super raw not many ready contributors.

 

[ISO]

Worst fear has been realized. Thibs had the backing of Brunson and Leon Rose but Dolan decided to overrule and fire him. Dolan is back with his ways.

Dolan forces what the fans want. The fans wanted Melo. The fans wanted Thibs fired.

 

[Wargames]

Worst fear has been realized. Thibs had the backing of Brunson and Leon Rose but Dolan decided to overrule and fire him. Dolan is back with his ways.

This does explain it. I was pretty sure if we made it to the ECF Thibs job would be safe. Dolan made the call, but I will say this as a devils advocate he didn’t do it unilaterally, he sat in on the player’s exit interviews and let the players tell him what they thought. J

With that said it also explains the issues the FO has with finding Thibs replacement. If this had been up to the FO they likely would have looked at who was available and said run it back AND it also explain why they did all that crazy shyt since they got caught scrambling.

 

[RickyGQ]

Pate is a project but with great measurables and athleticism.

Diawara...I don't picture him working out. I'd have much rather drafted Saliou Niang who went 58th to Cleveland. He's another draft and stash wing with great athleticism, but his development has been really clear already.

I would have been REALLY happy with Kobe Sanders. He's 6'7 but could play point forward in a pinch, with an advanced midrange game that felt translatable even if he plays a bit slower than you'd like to see.

Kevin Smith was on KFTV, and he was talking about how few teams have spending money this offseason. The teams with cap space have to worry about re-signing their own players. He implied it's brooklyn with cap space...and that's it. So, the Knicks could have more options with minimum contract offers than you might expect. The MLE and vet's minimum might turn out really valuable for a team that's primed to contend in an East whose top two teams suffered Achilles injuries to their stars.

That was my first thought about free agency, my fear was players all just resign with their teams who could keep them with bird rights.

 

[mvp_status]

Worst fear has been realized. Thibs had the backing of Brunson and Leon Rose but Dolan decided to overrule and fire him. Dolan is back with his ways.

Well everybody in here was screaming how Thibs was the biggest thing holding this team back so what's the issue here?

 

[In The Zone '98]

First it was Mikal. Now its really the owner

Man, get y'all clickbait on

I want a BENCH. Let's get this free agency crac'n

 

[RickyGQ]

This does explain it. I was pretty sure if we made it to the ECF Thibs job would be safe. Dolan made the call, but I will say this as a devils advocate he didn’t do it unilaterally, he sat in on the player’s exit interviews and let the players tell him what they thought. J

With that said it also explains the issues the FO has with finding Thibs replacement. If this had been up to the FO they likely would have looked at who was available and said run it back AND it also explain why they did all that crazy shyt since they got caught scrambling.

Ugh. I hope Fred is wrong.

 

[Mr. Jack Napier]

Worst fear has been realized. Thibs had the backing of Brunson and Leon Rose but Dolan decided to overrule and fire him. Dolan is back with his ways.

This goes against what was reported earlier that Rose was on board with Thibs getting the boot, and that was from people very close to the team.

I'm not trusting any of these ESPN reporters with no real ties to the city or team.