LOS ANGELES – After getting drafted by the Knicks in late June, Frank Ntilikina went back to France that night on a red-eye to play in the deciding Game 5 of the French League Finals for Strasbourg.
It was quite the whirlwind. After spending a few days at home, he flew back to New York to play in the Orlando summer league.
Though he sat out the summer league with a knee injury, he spent most of the rest of the summer in New York, working on his knee and game with the Knicks staff. The 19-year-old has seen little of France since becoming a Knick and even this All-Star Break didn’t give him a chance to return.