During Dan D’Antoni’s three-plus seasons as a Knicks assistant coach, and even back in Phoenix before the 2007 NBA Draft, he lobbied for Ramon Sessions.
D’Antoni is long gone and now head coach at Marshall, his alma mater, but Sessions is finally a Knick.
D’Antoni, Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni’s brother, has known Sessions since he was 12 years old when he played for the AAU program he ran in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Sessions, 31, agreed to terms on a one-year veteran’s minimum deal at $2.1 million Friday — or eight years after former general manager Donnie Walsh once offered him a four-year, $24 million package.