Knicks general manager Scott Perry will leave the organization once his contract expires this summer, Steve Popper of Newsday reports.
Perry joined New York’s front office in 2017. Current president of basketball operations Leon Rose, who was hired in 2020, gave him a contract extension two years ago.
However, Perry’s influence in the front office has waned as executive VP William Wesley and senior basketball consultant Gerrson Rosas have taken a bigger role in personnel moves.
Perry was instrumental in drafting RJ Barrett and Mitchell Robinson and signing Julius Randle as a free agent.
Perry has been a front office mainstay in the league since 2000, when he was hired by the Pistons. He was also an executive with Seattle in its last season before the franchise moved and had stints with Orlando and Sacramento. Before he was hired by the Knicks, Perry was part of the Kings group that drafted De’Aaron Fox.
Finally! Been waiting for this day…
As for drafting Fox, that was Divac. Perry was relatively new after getting canned in Orlando and reported into Divac who at the time was GM.
He will end up with a better job than the one he just left… that’s the way it’s always been for SP… nine lives (or more!)
I heard he left because he was interested in finding a team that will consider letting him suit up and come off the bench! LOLZ!
“He knows a lot of players” – Steve Mills, upon being asked why, with all the upwardly mobile young FO executives around, he chose the older (and theretofore laterally mobile) Perry.
Perry was a FO toadie in poor FO’s since 2000. He was never even a GM until hired by the NYK. So, until then, he didn’t draft anyone. In his first draft as GM, he drafted Kevin Knox.
Sadly, during the Stooge Era, Perry actually was the best basketball mind in the organization. He was at least a failed basketball executive, vs his boss, Mills, a failed marketing executive.
Addition, by (long overdue) subtraction.
He deserves a lot of credit. The past few years have been the most stable years in NY since the Ewing days. He brought in Thibs and Randle and started to build a team built on hard work, similar to the Heat and the Randolph era Grizzlies. He also brought back Rose and acquired some really good under the radar players like Grimes, Quickley and Robinson. And the Brunson deal was a highly underrated move. At first it looked like another overpay by a desperate team, by ended up being a great signing.
With that being said, it’s probably a good move to move on if they can bring in someone to take them to the next level. Similar to the GSW coaching situation. Jackson came in and provided discipline and structure which what was needed at the time to build the foundation. But he wasn’t the type of coach to take guys like Curry and Klay to the next level like Kerr did.
As a basketball strategical genius, I really appreciate what the Knicks are doing and look forward to seeing how they evolve.
Did Perry leave before, or after the Kings drafted Bagley over Doncic?
Obviously Divac and Luka’s pops’ had static, but that was a monumental whiff!
I wouldn’t necessarily blame Perry for Divac’s decision, but it happened, and nobody in the Kings Org. stopped it.
Good for him! He deserves better
Oh yeah? Dude has made plenty of bonehead decisions as well. And now he’s out of the Knicks organization that is gonna excel without him.