When the New York Knicks selected Kevin Knox, I found myself tracing the steps that led Scott Perry to hid decision. In doing so, a name kept ringing in my head, no matter how hard I tried to shake it: Donovan Mitchell.
While Knox doesn’t play the same position or style as Mitchell, the pre-draft process that the two orchestrated was eerily similar.
In 2017, Mitchell made waves in the NBA Draft community by declining private workouts in favor of a group setting. Knox did the same in 2018, and much like Mitchell, obliterated the lottery-caliber competition that he was matched up against.