Chalmette (La.) High School coach Butch Stockton may have concerns for his former player’s first summer league game in Las Vegas as the Knicks’ new 7-foot center Mitchell Robinson gets into game shape.
Robinson, selected by the Knicks in the second round Thursday with the 36th pick in the NBA draft, hasn’t played a 5-on-5 game in 14 months — last flying up the court in the high school All-Star event, the Jordan Classic, in April 2017.
But if Robinson survives Vegas, Stockton said, he believes Knicks fans are in for a high-flying treat. Stockton has seen the athletic 20-year-old center drain seven 3-pointers in a row and block 12 shots in a game when he coached Robinson at Chalmette — located 30 minutes from New Orleans’ French Quarter.