Tim Hardaway Jr. admitted his first reaction when the Knicks showed interest in him was ‘Wow!” But after the shock and surprise of that initial phone call, he said he wouldn’t want to play with anyone else.
Of course, the Knicks gave Hardaway 71 million reasons to want to return to the team that drafted him in 2013 and then traded him two years later. But with Phil Jackson no longer the Knicks president, Hardaway said it dawned on him that he could return someday. He just didn’t think it would be now.
“You play here for two years and then you’re gone,” Hardaway said Monday afternoon at a Knicks’ basketball camp.