Before we talk about present-day Mitchell Robinson, I want to talk about what he’s been up to this point.
When the Knicks took Robinson 36th overall in 2018, there was no way to know what impact he would have. After all, he hadn’t played organized basketball in over a year after his complicated withdrawal from Western Kentucky. The former five-star recruit could not play in the D-League because he took summer classes ahead of the freshman year which never happened. Furthermore, he withdrew from all NBA Combine activities. This guy was a complete unknown, but Steve Mills and Scott Perry decided to add him as a complimentary piece to a draft class centered around Kentucky wing Kevin Knox.