Lance Thomas spent Friday at an Upper East Side school talking to kids about doing the right thing and playing the right way. In a sense, the Knicks co-captain and Brooklyn native will be doing the same thing when training camp starts Sept. 24.
One of the integral roles for Thomas, the longest-tenured Knick and their defensive specialist, is teaching and grooming the two young draft studs — 18-year-old Kevin Knox and 20-year-old Mitchell Robinson — during this rebuilding.
Thomas already has a bond with Robinson, who works with his former New Orleans-based trainer, Marcell Scott. And in Knox, Thomas will take under his wing a player who lines up at his position.