Rookie Kevin Knox will make his Knicks debut July 7 at the Las Vegas summer league against the Hawks. Knox, 18, will either look like the next Kevin Durant or Jayson Tatum, depending which Kentucky coach you believe.
One week after John Calipari compared Knox to Tatum in predicting he will explode in the NBA after not doing so in college, Kentucky’s top assistant, Kenny Payne, went the Kevin Durant route.
Payne is an esteemed assistant who is close with Knicks executive Allan Houston after playing for his father at Louisville. Payne remembers Knox’s first day of college last year.