Per Woj: NBA Lottery Moved to August 25 Draft to October 15

Wow. The league has given the Knicks more than 4 months to come up with a cogent and effective plan to start turning this disgrace around. On the other hand, the Knicks also plan to reinterview Mike Woodson for the head coaching spot. That's not a good use of the abundant time they've been given.  That said, it's probably just a CAA favor, but the optics are horrendous.

The truth will turn out to be that no matter how august the new front office is, if they blow the coaching pick they won't get to make the subsequent GM pick and we'll being this all over next year.

Another thing. If whoever turns out to be the Knicks best player next year isn't willing to play defense, it will just be more of what we had when Melo and Starbury wouldn't play defense. On championship teams, the leaders play D.

UPDATE: Free Agency will start on October 18, Training Camp on November 10 and Next Season on December 1.