The New York Knicks finished with the worst record in the NBA, but it wasn’t a totally lost season.
Rookies like Allonzo Trier, Mitchell Robinson and Kevin Knox showed they have the potential to be valuable building blocks moving forward.
Knox (10.9 ppg) and Trier (10.8 ppg) finished eighth and ninth among rookies in scoring, while Robinson was highly-efficient (69.4 FG%) on offense and tremendous defensively, averaging 2.4 blocks per game.
Trier’s breakout was particularly a feel-good story because he went undrafted and played his way into a two-year, $7 million contract after initially signing a two-way contract.