It wasn’t long ago that Mitchell Robinson was envisioned as the New York Knicks’ young center of the future.
The former second-round pick could do it all on defense. His blocks were thunderous and Robinson was no slouch on the boards either. Everyone fell under the young seven-footer’s spell, even yours truly. I wrote back in 2019 how the then-21-year-old could easily win Defensive Player of the Year with a good season.
A pandemic and injury-plagued third season later, Mitchell Robinson is now more a “what could have been” center rather than what could be.