Official 2019 NYK offseason thread. Brooklyn knick fans check in

[the 718 truth]

that rj dunk reminds me of shumpert for some reason. i just hope we dont mismanage him like we did shump

Shump never had IT. We just really wanted him to and at least he wasn’t shook

 

[Bend_The_Knee]

This dude bodyslammed Kukoc his first practice

 

[you go boy]

will never forget that mean elbow he gave james harden for no reason

 

[donewithjs]

 

[donewithjs]

Makes zero sense!

 

[the 718 truth]

I can’t

 

[floodarea]

 

[Air Pope]

I don’t really know what they’re thinking about, but they could be eyeing Jarret Culver & a Cam Reddish w: those 2 picks? Idk . Only a rumor though

 

[d3si]

Nah, no way they'd consider it man

 

[d3si]

Any potential trade between the Knicks and the Hawks involving their first-round picks is not currently under "serious consideration" by either side, a league source told SNY.

ESPN reported Friday that the Knicks have "explored the possibility" of trading back in the draft and that trading the No. 3 overall pick to the Hawks for their No. 8 and No. 10 picks is being considered by New York.

It's normal for teams to have conversations about potentially trading up and down in the draft, and the Knicks -- like any other club with a top pick -- appear to performing due diligence here.

 

[Air Pope]

Yea that’s what I thought. Ppl gettin fired up over rumors as usual

 

[squatchnt]

Just read that Toronto doesn't have 1 lottery pick on their roster playing for a chip and here we are with, about 7 lottery picks, and the worst record in the league. It doesn't mean **** but I thought that was funny

 

[slime rawstein]

I’m all for trading the third pick for picks 8 and 10. I hate to be that guy, but RJ Barret isn’t the savior. Son is Canadian. All the Canadian dudes that play in the league are terry cloth herbs b. Plus his jumper is beyond suspect. His defense is trash too.

 

[donewithjs]

I’m all for trading the third pick for picks 8 and 10. I hate to be that guy, but RJ Barret isn’t the savior. Son is Canadian. All the Canadian dudes that play in the league are terry cloth herbs b. Plus his jumper is beyond suspect. His defense is trash too.

Hell nah. If you trade the 3rd pick you better get more than the 8th and 10th pick.

 

[floodarea]

It’s all due diligence

I don’t put any stock into it

 

[donewithjs]

They better add Taurean prince and Take Frank too.

 

[donewithjs]

It’s all due diligence

I don’t put any stick into it

You right but you know how most of us are

 

[ihust1e]

Nah, definitely mishandled Frank he shoulda been the G for at least a year, srs.

We wanted too much from him in too little time

Im good with him getting a fresh start elsewhere

Just as long as he dont win a chip there

 

[d3si]

Just read that Toronto doesn't have 1 lottery pick on their roster playing for a chip and here we are with, about 7 lottery picks, and the worst record in the league. It doesn't mean **** but I thought that was funny

Word

At least, we didn't give up any high price for these former lottery picks

It makes me wanna know more about Masai Ujiri's right man Dan Tolzman. Decided to learn more about Tolzman. He's an interesting and brilliant guy. His first job was in Denver as a intern.

Spoiler

https://nationalpost.com/sports/bas...-gm-of-the-raptors-905-torontos-d-league-team

“I remember a kid out of college who wouldn’t take no for an answer,” said Eric Sebastian, who ran the Nuggets’ public relations staff. He is now the director of basketball operations at the University of Memphis. “He kept hounding me and hounding me. He was very persistent. I couldn’t tell him no.”

Tolzman progressed from making photocopies for free to an internship to full-time status to being the manager of public relations. Knowing that Tolzman had a strong interest in the basketball side, Sebastian even allowed Tolzman to sit in the Nuggets’ draft room, allowing him to participate on the official draft call.

“He just had a strong work ethic,” Sebastian said. “He was extremely bright, driven. He had a basketball background. Even though we were working in PR, he was always throwing trade scenarios at me, or (potential) free agent signings. Working on game notes, he was following a lot of trends and stats. He was throwing ideas at me, and I would run them upstairs to the front office.”

Still, there is an obvious leap required to go from media relations to scouting. Tolzman knew Ujiri from his time as an international scout with the Nuggets. Ujiri went to Toronto in 2007, and then returned to the Nuggets in 2010 to run basketball operations. “They were pretty strapped what they could do, staff-wise,” Tolzman recalled.

Ujiri was not walking into a simple situation, so he needed all the help he could get. Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony wanted out of Denver, and was doing his best to force a trade to New York. Although there were rumours involving the New Jersey Nets, it was widely believed that Anthony would only sign a contract extension with the Knicks. That knowledge severely limited any leverage the Nuggets might have to extract the best return for their best asset, making it a stressful time for a first-time general manager.

“I would come back at night during the whole ’Melo thing, come back to the office,” Ujiri said. “Back then, our offices were cubicles. Where Dan’s office was, you couldn’t know whether he was in his cubicle or not (from the outside). And every time I was talking to all of these people at late hours or early hours, just coming to the office to do all of that stuff, I would just be walking around crazily, and Dan would just be sitting there on his computer watching tape. He would always be there. That stuck with me.

“He’s not trying to be the smartest guy in the room, per se, where people are trying to tell you, ‘I’m smart, I’m smart.’ He just says that he has an idea or ‘Here’s something I know’ or ‘Here is some information.’ And then he goes off and gives the information. There’s no rah-rah. He just goes about his business in an incredible way.”

When Ujiri came back to Toronto to run the Raptors, he called it a no-brainer to hire Tolzman. The same is true of hiring Tolzman to lead Raptors 905.

They better add Taurean prince and Take Frank too.

Speaking of that,

Just saw this tweet:

 

[donewithjs]

Word

At least, we didn't give up any high price for these former lottery picks

It makes me wanna know more about Masai Ujiri's right man Dan Tolzman. Decided to learn more about Tolzman. He's an interesting and brilliant guy. His first job was in Denver as a intern.

Spoiler

https://nationalpost.com/sports/bas...-gm-of-the-raptors-905-torontos-d-league-team

“I remember a kid out of college who wouldn’t take no for an answer,” said Eric Sebastian, who ran the Nuggets’ public relations staff. He is now the director of basketball operations at the University of Memphis. “He kept hounding me and hounding me. He was very persistent. I couldn’t tell him no.”

Tolzman progressed from making photocopies for free to an internship to full-time status to being the manager of public relations. Knowing that Tolzman had a strong interest in the basketball side, Sebastian even allowed Tolzman to sit in the Nuggets’ draft room, allowing him to participate on the official draft call.

“He just had a strong work ethic,” Sebastian said. “He was extremely bright, driven. He had a basketball background. Even though we were working in PR, he was always throwing trade scenarios at me, or (potential) free agent signings. Working on game notes, he was following a lot of trends and stats. He was throwing ideas at me, and I would run them upstairs to the front office.”

Still, there is an obvious leap required to go from media relations to scouting. Tolzman knew Ujiri from his time as an international scout with the Nuggets. Ujiri went to Toronto in 2007, and then returned to the Nuggets in 2010 to run basketball operations. “They were pretty strapped what they could do, staff-wise,” Tolzman recalled.

Ujiri was not walking into a simple situation, so he needed all the help he could get. Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony wanted out of Denver, and was doing his best to force a trade to New York. Although there were rumours involving the New Jersey Nets, it was widely believed that Anthony would only sign a contract extension with the Knicks. That knowledge severely limited any leverage the Nuggets might have to extract the best return for their best asset, making it a stressful time for a first-time general manager.

“I would come back at night during the whole ’Melo thing, come back to the office,” Ujiri said. “Back then, our offices were cubicles. Where Dan’s office was, you couldn’t know whether he was in his cubicle or not (from the outside). And every time I was talking to all of these people at late hours or early hours, just coming to the office to do all of that stuff, I would just be walking around crazily, and Dan would just be sitting there on his computer watching tape. He would always be there. That stuck with me.

“He’s not trying to be the smartest guy in the room, per se, where people are trying to tell you, ‘I’m smart, I’m smart.’ He just says that he has an idea or ‘Here’s something I know’ or ‘Here is some information.’ And then he goes off and gives the information. There’s no rah-rah. He just goes about his business in an incredible way.”

When Ujiri came back to Toronto to run the Raptors, he called it a no-brainer to hire Tolzman. The same is true of hiring Tolzman to lead Raptors 905.

Speaking of that,

Just saw this tweet:

That’s intriguing

 

[donewithjs]

So Frank, Knox, DSJ and 3rd pick for AD and Prince.

 

[d3si]

^

Basically yeah. Doubt Griffin'd accept it. He's a difficult person to make a deal with.

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Word

At least, we didn't give up any high price for these former lottery picks

It makes me wanna know more about Masai Ujiri's right man Dan Tolzman. Decided to learn more about Tolzman. He's an interesting and brilliant guy. His first job was in Denver as a intern.

Spoiler

https://nationalpost.com/sports/bas...-gm-of-the-raptors-905-torontos-d-league-team

“I remember a kid out of college who wouldn’t take no for an answer,” said Eric Sebastian, who ran the Nuggets’ public relations staff. He is now the director of basketball operations at the University of Memphis. “He kept hounding me and hounding me. He was very persistent. I couldn’t tell him no.”

Tolzman progressed from making photocopies for free to an internship to full-time status to being the manager of public relations. Knowing that Tolzman had a strong interest in the basketball side, Sebastian even allowed Tolzman to sit in the Nuggets’ draft room, allowing him to participate on the official draft call.

“He just had a strong work ethic,” Sebastian said. “He was extremely bright, driven. He had a basketball background. Even though we were working in PR, he was always throwing trade scenarios at me, or (potential) free agent signings. Working on game notes, he was following a lot of trends and stats. He was throwing ideas at me, and I would run them upstairs to the front office.”

Still, there is an obvious leap required to go from media relations to scouting. Tolzman knew Ujiri from his time as an international scout with the Nuggets. Ujiri went to Toronto in 2007, and then returned to the Nuggets in 2010 to run basketball operations. “They were pretty strapped what they could do, staff-wise,” Tolzman recalled.

Ujiri was not walking into a simple situation, so he needed all the help he could get. Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony wanted out of Denver, and was doing his best to force a trade to New York. Although there were rumours involving the New Jersey Nets, it was widely believed that Anthony would only sign a contract extension with the Knicks. That knowledge severely limited any leverage the Nuggets might have to extract the best return for their best asset, making it a stressful time for a first-time general manager.

“I would come back at night during the whole ’Melo thing, come back to the office,” Ujiri said. “Back then, our offices were cubicles. Where Dan’s office was, you couldn’t know whether he was in his cubicle or not (from the outside). And every time I was talking to all of these people at late hours or early hours, just coming to the office to do all of that stuff, I would just be walking around crazily, and Dan would just be sitting there on his computer watching tape. He would always be there. That stuck with me.

“He’s not trying to be the smartest guy in the room, per se, where people are trying to tell you, ‘I’m smart, I’m smart.’ He just says that he has an idea or ‘Here’s something I know’ or ‘Here is some information.’ And then he goes off and gives the information. There’s no rah-rah. He just goes about his business in an incredible way.”

When Ujiri came back to Toronto to run the Raptors, he called it a no-brainer to hire Tolzman. The same is true of hiring Tolzman to lead Raptors 905.

Speaking of that,

Just saw this tweet:

I like this.

 

[donewithjs]

I like this.

You talking the trade?

 

[slime rawstein]

Prince is a player that isn’t shy to jack 3s. He just doesnt make shots at a respectable percentage. He’s a decent wing defender though.

We’d have the typical Knick problem of having zero reliable guards.

Good thing Felton is gonna be a FA.