League sources said the "Zen Master" had dinner with Arizona forward Lauri Markkanen on Monday in NY, according to the Vertical.
And now heading into next year, those same loyal Knicks fans will still have the same reason to show up and watch Kristaps Porzingis continue to grow into the star he'll be in the National Basketball Association.
Even before that, the tennis great had begun to lose patience with his favorite team. "I hadn't been up on that, so it wasn't awkward for me when he sort of poked me in my back, Charles, right before the incident happened". To that end, he seems to favor global players over college ones.
"To see Charles Oakley have handcuffs put on him was terrible. So there will be other conversations in the process", he said. "It just shows you how this business is and like I said, I just go with the flow".
Kristaps Porzingis was drafted by the Knicks in 2015 as the fourth overall pick and is one of the most highly rated players in the league. For all we know, he thrives in NY.
The Knicks have been in the news for all the wrong reasons in the past few months.
Steven A.is a Knicks fan, and so it's no surprise the events of the past week had him struggling for words, but the exact words he chose were nonetheless shocking.
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Jackson, who has been famously aloof throughout his tenure with the Knicks, has reportedly not spoken to team owner James Dolan in weeks.
"Watching this was like, I'm sitting there going, why the hell am I a Knick fan again?"
A potential deal with the Suns could come down to draft night and the Knicks making sure that Jackson is still available at No. 4 before agreeing to the deal.
As Phil Jackson has stated publicly, nobody is untouchable on the Knicks including Kristaps Porzingis. The Knicks, in desperate need of backcourt help for a glaringly imperfect squad, selected Ntilikina, a 6-foot-5-inch 18-year-old, with the No. 8 pick in the draft Thursday night, setting the stage for another European import to impress at Madison Square Garden. Jackson could draft whoever he wants and essentially build the team how he sees fit, rather than trying to build a team around Melo. "So this whole thing seems to have gone completely off the rails".
Teams chasing those two squads may make up ground quickest with a veteran player they can only get through free agency or a trade, so that may have to wait until July.
Despite the Knicks posting a 117-211 record and.554 winning percentage in his four seasons as an executive with the franchise, Jackson maintains confidence.
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