ORLANDO, Fla. — Sunday at Orlando’s Amway Center, former defensive center Clifford Ray, of Warriors fame, sat behind the basket and barked instructions at rookie center Mitchell Robinson.
Add another former NBA player enlisted by the coaching staff to tutor Robinson — and other young Knicks. Ray attended Knicks practice in Orlando on Saturday to work with the big men and then watched the Knicks’ 131-117 loss as unofficial coach.
Ray was a big banger who played 10 years in the NBA from 1971 to 1981. He knows Knicks assistant Keith Smart, who was head coach of Fort Wayne of the CBA in 1997 with Ray on his staff.