With Mitchell Robinson sidelined for the start of the regular season, Jericho Sims will likely be in the Knicks’ rotation unless they make a trade. Sims is taking steps to earn Tom Thibodeau‘s trust and another NBA contract, according to Stefan Bondy of the New York Post.
Sims has been at the Knicks training facility since mid-August under the tutelage of assistant coach Mark Bryant, who specializes in developing frontcourt talent, Bondy writes.
Sims, who will be a free agent after the season, had a healthy and productive offseason after rehabbing the last two summers from surgeries to his thumb and shoulder. The 2021 second-round pick appeared in 45 games, including 11 starts, last season.
We have more on the Knicks:
- After naming Pistons’ Isaiah Stewart as a potential trade target to fortify the middle. James Edwards III of The Athletic explores three hypothetical trades the Knicks could make, including one that sees the Knicks acquire Stewart and two future second-round picks from Detroit for Robinson, Miles McBride, and the 2025 first-round pick the Pistons already owe them. Edwards also considers what potential trade packages for Utah’s Walker Kessler and Charlotte’s Nick Richards might look like.
- Mikal Bridges is surprised he’s been part of two blockbuster deals in the last two years. “I would’ve thought I was the last person to be traded all the time,” Bridges told Spencer Davies of RG.org. “It kinda started when I was in Phoenix. I thought I probably never was gonna leave Phoenix. Being the type of player I am, I feel like I’m kinda in a glue role usually a team would trade for or would trade to give up [a lot]. But once that starts, once you get traded once, now it’s like it’s gonna be continuous. But hopefully, things go great [in New York] and I don’t gotta keep moving teams.”
- What does the Knicks’ roster look like heading into camp? Get the details here.
Miles Bridges hasn’t been traded since his draft night in 2018.
Wait maybe my comprehension is a little off. Why would the Pistons trade for McBride and the supposed pick they owe the knicks when clearly protected 1-13? As if the Pistons aren’t falling between 1-13. Trading a pick they’ll clearly be getting anyway sounds a little strange.
If it lands in the top 13 in 2025, it’d be top-11 protected in 2026 and top-9 protected in 2027 before turning into a second-round pick.
It’s possible it lands in the protected range every year, but it would benefit the Pistons to get it back, since:
a) then there’d be no risk that they’d lose it in a year or two if they improve.
b) it would give them more freedom if they want to trade a first-round pick in a subsequent deal.
I like the NYK FO. But if either the last two media suggested deals are even being discussed, Rose should resign. He would be saying that he spent this past off season trading away all our own FRPs to put together a team that’s enough worse than DET, UTH and CHA that it would trade 2 of its top 8 players (including its starting C), and a FRP, for their backup C.
At least Kessler and Richard are C’s that might fit our system, and are cheap for at least the next year or so. Still, they can be had in any draft at the bottom of the first or second round, and don’t warrant giving up real trade assets. Stewart, I wouldn’t take regardless of the trade price, because, while he has some virtues as a player, he’s a tweener who doesn’t fit the NYK, skill set-wise and even more so contract-wise. We already have two 6’9″ non-rim protectors we can use at C who are cheaper, and if there are minutes at PF for a non-shooter, which there really aren’t, they belong to PA.
I doubt there’s little (to any) pressure to even kick deals around till after xmas when inventories around the league hit the 50% off bin
Ive always had a soft spot for Drew Eubanks, and his 5 mil sal will be easy to match
Give Utah 3 months and he will be on the block for cheap and in Nyk range