2021-22 Knicks Player Review: Miles McBride

Miles McBride’s 2021-22 season represented another oft-debated question of Knicks past and present: Does it make sense to not play your second-round pick in a lost year when he’s played well at every other level and the guys ahead of him in the depth chart are not young are all that good? The answer, as it should have been for 2019 draft pick Ignas Brazdeikis, is a resounding no. While Iggy Buckets was sadly never destined for greatness, neither was Maurice Harkless, and it couldn’t have hurt to make that swap and at least see what you had in the younger guy instead of playing Harkless 40 minutes to edge out wins to drop back in the lottery. The difference is that, while Brazdeikis was probably always bad and him being in the league two seasons from now is an unthinkably optimistic take, McBride has a legitimate chance at being good.

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