No dagger was needed to further crush the Knicks during their 10-46 season, but here’s one.
As a teenage Giannis Antetokounmpo began to rise onto the scene in Greece as an NBA prospect, teams started to take notice stateside. Almost every one, in fact.
“Except the Knicks,” Giorgos Panou, Antetokounmpo’s agent, said in an upcoming documentary on the Greek Freak, set to air at 6:30 p.m. Saturday on TNT.
Antetokounmpo wasn’t getting much attention at first, until Panou contacted Jonathan Givony, who at the time ran Draft Express and now works at ESPN. Givony went to Greece to watch Antetokounmpo, and after being struck by his potential, posted highlights of the 6-foot-11 stud on Draft Express.