Posting and Toasting · Aug 23, 2018
Knicks 2017-18 Player Review: Frank Ntilikina
Phil Jackson selected Frank Ntilikina 8th overall in the 2017 NBA Draft. Ntilikina was viewed by many as a player picked specifically by Jackson to further his vision of fully immersing the Knicks into the Triangle moving forward.
Six days later, the Knicks chose to part ways with Jackson as president of basketball operations.
In the aftermath of Big Chief Triangle’s sudden dismissal, there was much angst among the fanbase and a cascade #lolKnicks takes emanating from local and mainstream media over the Knicks’ choice to take the jumbo sized guard from Strasbourg over Dennis Smith Jr., a dynamo point guard out of NC State whom the Dallas Mavericks selected immediately after.
