It's no secret that New York Knicks president Phil Jackson is targeting next July as the time for the franchise to make a huge splash in free agency, and one of the team's reported targets happens to have just visited MSG on Saturday night - Phoenix Suns guard Goran Dragic.
Far from professing loyalty to his current situation in Phoenix, Dragic kindled fires of optimism in Knicks fans looking for a light at the end of the tunnel after this season's 5-24 start.
“Every team that is going to be available for me is going to be an option,” Dragic said before the Suns' 99-90 win on Saturday, per Jonathan Lehman of the New York Post. “You know, I think New York, they have great base of fans, great basketball organization. In the past few years, they didn’t play so well, but like I said before, that luck can change quick.”
Dragic is averaging 16 points and 4.1 assists with the Suns in their high-tempo offense this season, but the 28-year-old sharpshooter is interested in what a methodical, ball-movement based system like the triangle could mean for his game.
“Yesterday we had a practice and we ran some plays, Coach Jeff [Hornacek] was kind of funny. We’re couldn’t stop the triangle. He said, ‘Maybe we should run that,’ ” Dragic said. “All my career I was with Phoenix Suns, we like to play up-tempo game, push the ball, so it’s definitely different.”
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