The company line out of Madison Square Garden in the wake of the Kristaps Porzingis trade was that there was nothing they could do to convince the disgruntled star to stay in New York. He wanted out and the New York Knicks‘ front office had no choice but to trade the Latvian star.
However, a report from Ramona Shelburne of ESPN indicates that the Knicks were shopping Porzingis prior to his meeting with the front office on Jan. 31, 2019.
“The Knicks began gauging interest in Porzingis early in 2019,” Shelburne wrote.