Well, here we are again. Staring at the latest set of blueprints for culture, accountability, and another New York Knicks rebuild. One increasingly urgent place to start is to ask some questions about Mitchell Robinson that we should — general Knicks flux notwithstanding — be some way to answering by now, two organizationally turbulent years into his NBA career.
Robinson, at 22 years old, is a raw but breathtakingly boisterous athlete, and is one of the more promising of the Knicks’ young players. New team president Leon Rose and his revamped front office don’t have long to evaluate the young big man, given the possibility of a juicy contract extension negotiation looming after next season, in the summer of 2021.