Knicks Draft Review

The big thing last night was that Phil Jackson didn't completely lose his mind and trade KP.  At one point, media pundits were calling it likely! Phew.  So instead of that, the Knicks grabbed a 6'5" PG who will pass KP the ball, and back that up be taking "the best shooter in the draft" and another 6'5" PG who will passt KP the ball.  Frank is 18, Damyeon is 23, and Ognjen is just 21. So, after sneaking away from the youth movement to make that tragic Melo-centric deal with the Bulls last year, the youth movement is back on.

Last night, after the draft, the Knicks signed undrafted block and rebound C, Luke Kornet, out of Vanderbilt, and scoring SF Nigel Hayes out of Wisconsin.  Phil probably won't like the fact that Kornet can nail threes, but probably will like that he's a math whiz.

The Knicks are sheduled to head into UFA season with about 19M in cap room.  They can, of course, can more cap room by trading Lee or O'Quinn.  Then they might be able to dip RFA market as well as UFA.  We'll see. The most important item of business will be to somehow get Melo off the team.  Should be a pretty interesting next few weeks.