Consuming the Anthony Davis drama in January, the New York Knicks shook up their roster and the NBA with the Kristaps Porzingis trade. It preceded the Feb. 7 trade deadline, and the Knicks set themselves up for an interesting summer as a result.
Porzingis was hardly the only player involved. Among others, Tim Hardaway Jr. went to the Dallas Mavericks — the second time the organization traded him in four years.
Reacting to this transaction as the Mavericks play in Brooklyn, Hardaway told the New York Daily News it was “mind-blowing” how his two Knicks stints ended the same, and how there was a failed opportunity for what the team had in place:
“I let them know we definitely had something good going here my first time back with KP and myself in the lineup at the same time.