The New York Knicks will not retain the services of player development coach Josh Longstaff. Normally, the organization parting ways with a lower-rung assistant coach wouldn’t warrant much controversy. But these are the Knicks, so fasten your seatbelts.
Longstaff was one of the few remaining holdovers of Derek Fisher’s original staff, but more importantly he developed a connection with multiple current players — most notably Porzingis — and went overseas last year to help train the Latvian forward. Porzingis had even requested that Longstaff serve as an assistant on his Latvian national team this summer for the European championships, as The News previously reported.