Scott Perry had done all his homework. He had brought in more players to work out than we can list here. He had talked to their college coaches. He had talked to some of their parents. He had made judgments about their skill and character and how they would fit with the Knicks’ current personnel.
Yes, the Knicks general manager, along with Knicks president Steve Mills, had done his homework. But all that preparation and planning couldn’t change the fact that there were three very different players with three very different risk-reward quotients on the board when the Knicks got ready to make the No.