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What if…the Knicks trade down for additional picks, stockpile young talent, and embrace a competent rebuilding strategy…for a while anyway.

With the order of the draft being settled, the writers of KnickerBlogger thought we’d go over the possible outcomes. But since we were whipping out the ol’ Crystal Ball, we decided to go a little past June & see what fate possibly has to offer…

2015 Draft Order

1 MIN Karl-Anthony Towns

2 LAL Jahlil Okafor

3 PHI D’Angelo Russell

4 NYK Emmanuel Mudiay (Traded to Atlanta)

What Happened on Draft Day 2015

About 45 minutes after the Knicks selected Mudiay, Stephen A. Smith broke the news on Twitter:

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And Twitter had fun with it.