For the first time since 2016, the New York Knicks won’t have a draft pick in the annual NBA Draft scheduled to take place on June 22 inside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY of all places.
If you’re wondering why, the reason for that is very simple although it goes all the way across the globe as it’s related to a little big fella from the Eastern region of Europe: Kristaps Porzingis.
Back in 2019, the Knicks traded Porzingis, along with Trey Burke, Tim Hardaway Jr., and Courtney Lee to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for DeAndre Jordan, Wesley Matthews, Dennis Smith Jr.