History tells us who the Knicks will draft 11th

Photo by Jeff Haynes/NBAE via Getty ImagesLater this month, barring a trade, the Knicks will pick 11th in the NBA Draft. There’s been much speculation over who they could or should select. Entirely too much speculation, really, given what history has already taught us concerning the Knicks’ history picking 11th, as well as the rest of the league the past 20 years. The first lesson we learn: the Knicks have been awful picking at #11.

To be fair, it’s been a while since the Knicks picked 11. The last time was 1969, a nice draft that landed them John Warren. Warren played fewer minutes his lone year in New York than Quentin Grimes did last year. Other Knicks picked 11th: Don “Buddy” Ackerman,…