Ryan Blake, the NBA’s scouting consultant, still feels it is too early to pinpoint a consensus top five for the June 25th draft.
But he doesn’t think Knicks president Phil Jackson can go wrong at his spot. As second seed in the May 19 draft lottery, the Knicks have locked up no worse than a top-five pick — with a 19.9 percent chance of winning to top overall spot, and the opportunity to select between centers Karl-Anthony Towns (Kentucky) and Greg Okafor (Duke), the team’s two chief targets. Jackson has hinted multiple times the two-way Towns is for now his No.