The New York Knicks are picking up Kemba Walker off the buyout market, but they are rolling out the red carpet for the Bronx native anyway.
The team announced the signing on Wednesday morning and released a video on social media to publicize Walker’s return home. They even called in Chazz Palminteri, an actor who also hails from the Bronx, to narrate the video.
“Kemba Walker was born in the Bronx on May 8th, 1990,” Palminteri begins. “The game of basketball came naturally to him. Kemba flashed his rare talent playing for the iconic New York Gauchos and then Rice High School.