Each of the 30 NBA teams, including the New York Knicks, does an incredible amount of preparation leading up to the yearly NBA Draft, traveling near and far to watch a bevy of potential prospects and assessing both workouts and scouting reports in the hopes that they can figure out who to select when the time comes.
Unfortunately, not every pick is a home run or even a rational one at that. We’ve seen plenty of teams select a player, only to see the one they passed up on have a better career.
Rewind back to 2009, and the Knicks were coming off another dismal season, finishing with a record of 32-50, good for 14th in the conference and the number eight overall pick in the draft.