We all know the New York Knicks need to make a trade. The front office running the team knows it, too. Reading between the lines, it seems they’ll strike a deal in hopes of landing a backup point guard.
And that’s the wrong call.
Hints of New York’s trade-deadline intentions come to us from Ian Begley’s latest mailbag over at SNY. Asked whether the Knicks intend to add some rim protection ahead of the February 5 cutoff, he writes:
“If I’m making a guess today, I’m guessing that the Knicks look for veteran point guards on the trade market before they look for front-line help…The Knicks are getting by with a point-guard-by-committee approach.