The odds are always against a Division II product getting a real look at training camp, but point guard Amir Hinton may be different.
Signed to an Exhibit 10 contract, Hinton led all of college basketball in scoring at Division II Shaw University at 29.4 points per game and drives to the basket with a craftiness that belies his small-school resume.
After playing on the Knicks summer-league team, the 6-foot-5 combo guard will be the unlikeliest player at Knicks training camp that starts Monday. (There was one Division II player on an NBA roster last season: Atlanta’s Jaylen Morris of Molloy College in Long Island.