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Melo likes the Knicks roster
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In an interview with the Chicago Tribune's K.C. Johnson, Joakim Noah said that the New York Knicks were always his first priority in free agency.
"My mind was already set on where I wanted to play," Noah said, citing the presence of former Chicago Bulls teammate Derrick Rose, Knicks president Phil Jackson and the fact that New York is his hometown. Part of the reason he was so sure about this might be the fact that he spent time with Jackson in Montana five years ago, thanks to a Greenwich Village dentist who put them in touch.