When Dennis Smith Jr. got booed off the court at the Garden in late October, the lone player to go over to him on the bench was Knicks shooting guard Damyean Dotson.
Those are the type of quiet leadership gestures Dotson does that go unnoticed by a Knicks front office now two administrations removed from drafting him. That makes the 25-year-old’s future highly uncertain as he enters free agency.
Dotson did not play in eight of the last nine games, including the double-overtime potential season finale March 11 in Atlanta.
“That seemed the writing on the wall,’’ one NBA scout said of the demotion.