SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Knicks GM Scott Perry, the former Kings executive, is attending the team’s four-game Western swing, though he took a detour Thursday to Tucson, Ariz., to catch Stanford at Arizona.
Perry and his flock of new personnel men are ready to dance as conference tournaments commence and the NCAA Tournament beckons. This will be the first Knicks draft run by Perry, who wasn’t hired by president Steve Mills until mid-July.
Arizona boasts the potential No. 1 pick in the draft in some circles in big man Deandre Ayton but also features two potential second-round shooting guards, sophomore Rawle Alkins and Allonzo Trier, the latter of whom was recently ruled ineligible and then reinstated because of a banned substance.