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Eight games in, I ranked all 11 Knicks rotation players by on/off net rating. The team is +5.0 per 100. Even though four of the 11 players are negative. Not even a 30-point win against the Bulls could fix that. Guess the four before you click 👇👇👇

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Jordan Clarkson is the most important player on the Knicks bench and he only plays 10 minutes a night. New York is plus 45.8 per 100 with him on the floor and minus 6.4 without him. Mike Brown gave him a DNP in Detroit last week. He should be playing 20 mins. He answered that DNP with 18 in 17 minutes while the Knicks came back from 19 down in Chicago. The full on/off numbers and the tape in the comments 👇👇👇

Mike Brown keeps pulling Mikal Bridges in the third quarter and Stefan Bondy hinted the hey should move him, so I ran all 30 cap sheets to find exactly which teams could take on his contract. Exactly 19 teams can take his $33.5 million and send the Knicks back for less. Only five of the realistic deals are worth Leon Rose considering a trade call this season if things don’t improve. Guess the five. Full trade list in the reply. 👇👇👇

The Warriors stopped paying Porzingis this week, ruling that he isn’t rendering services. Six franchises in 11 years and never more than 72 games in a season. I never liked him, and when KP was traded to Dallas, I talked my pops off a ledge. I broke down his career from the POV of a Knicks fan and how the hell we got to this point. 👇👇👇

The Knicks are 3-4, and it’s not complicated as to why. They get to the rim more than every team but one and finish there worse than anyone, at 60.1% inside 3 feet, down from 68.9% a year ago. Dunks fell from 4.7 per game to 2.7, and a quarter of last year’s left to Boston with Mitch. I dug into the numbers and the fix 👇👇👇

The Knicks can trade the guy they benched Monday. They can’t trade either of the two guys who closed in his place until at least Dec. 15. Three teams can take Mikal Bridges’ $33.5 million without New York touching the starting five. Keep him or move him? I did the research and came up with three realistic, sound trades. Link below to check them out. Please subscribe and support @TheKOTShow Substack! 👇👇👇

Knicks-Nets tonight at MSG. Brooklyn is 1-5, playing the 2nd night of a back-to-back, missing Egor Demin, and hasn’t beaten the Knicks since January 2023 (14 straight). Here’s how New York turns this into an easy one 🧵

The defending champs are 2-4 and 32 points per 100 better when their $150M wing is on the bench. “Trade him” vs. “leave him alone” is the wrong fight. Mike Brown has already picked a third option twice, and half of you were furious about it. I wrote about it all 👇👇👇

Knicks fans: Would you trade Deuce McBride for a backup center today? That's the price. The champs are 2-4, the non-Towns minutes are a -17 net rating, and I charted every target the front office called about, league-wide, game by game. Check out my full list below 👇👇👇

The Knicks are declining Pacôme Dadiet’s $5.37M option, making him an unrestricted free agent in June. Which makes it official: in nearly seven years under Leon Rose, not a single first-round pick drafted by this front office has reached a second contract in New York. Not one. 🧵