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Auburn basketball: B/R now projects Sharife Cooper to the Knicks

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The New York Knicks could look like the Auburn basketball northeast chapter in the pros if Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman is a soothsayer with his latest 2021 NBA Mock Draft.

With the Knicks organization already rostering the 2019 Final Four team’s backcourt duo of Jared Harper and Bryce Brown–who are set to represent the Westchester Knicks in the G-League’s foray into the Lake Buena Vista bubble in Walt Disney World’s Wide World of Sports complex where the NBA finished the 2019-20 season–they could be adding another explosive scoring guard from the Plains in the form of current Tiger star Sharife Cooper:

As good as Immanuel Quickley has been for the New York Knicks, they still need a playmaker who excels at setting up teammates.