For all the shortcomings the Knicks have had as a franchise on the organization level, the draft has been one of the few bright spots over the course of this bleak, dystopic century. It began with Isiah Thomas setting several years of draft picks on fire with any number of bad trades, a byproduct of his misguided belief that the cornerstone to team building was expensive, high risk, low reward free agents with strong name recognition. So draft picks, wherever the team found them, became crucial to survival, or whatever survival might look like for a team that’s been mediocre to bad for 20 years, and over and over again- as the Knicks reliably fucked up every aspect of running their franchise- they converted on an uncommon number of their low value picks.
An amateur GM looks back on the last seven years of Knicks draft picks
