In September, Knicks general manager Scott Perry wrote a blog in which he mentioned five Knicks by name as building blocks for the future. One of them was Willy Hernangomez. On Wednesday, the Knicks traded him for a journeyman they plan to waive and second-round picks in 2020 and 2021.
How we got here is a perfect example of mismanagement: how you take a strong asset, destroy its value and then sell it for pennies on the dollar.
Hernangomez was a second-round pick who came over to the Knicks from Europe for the 2016-17 season.