Stan Van Gundy leaned on his front office to help make the final call on the choice for the last roster spot. Ray McCallum Jr. got the nod over Lorenzo Brown, a personnel decision that took on much greater impact when Reggie Jackson was lost for approximately the first quarter of the season with a knee injury.
If it had been a boxing match, it would have been a split decision. When Van Gundy polled his coaching staff, opinion was split down the middle between Brown and McCallum, both products of the 2011 draft, both second-round draft picks after three college basketball seasons, with not much separating them statistically in the three preseason games Van Gundy gave each to prove himself.