The New York Knicks own the 19th and 21st picks in the 2021 NBA Draft, and most observers believed they would try to package those two picks to move up, perhaps in the late lottery.
But it takes two to tango, and the teams in the lottery don’t appear to be interested trading with the Knicks, according to Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman:
A source says the Knicks have made calls to late-lottery teams about trading up. I’m told the Warriors turned down Nos. 19 and 21 for No. 14. The Knicks don’t have strong enough draft assets to get into top 10, and now it seems like a long shot they can get into the late lottery.