TORONTO – Jared Jeffries, the former Nuggets’ scouting director and ex-Knicks forward, told The Post that Emmanuel Mudiay desperately needed out of Denver before his entire career was shot.
Denver had moved on with their 2016 first-rounder, Jamal Murray and Mudiay, 21, was regressing.
Jeffries, who helped draft Mudiay with the seventh pick in 2015, commended the Knicks for getting him on the cheap – the worse of their two 2018 second-rounders and slumping Doug McDermott.
“I know how tough it was for [general manager] Tim [Connelly] and [owner] Josh [Kroenke] to let him go,’’ Jeffries told The Post in a phone interview.