In fairness, though the Knicks could have traded up for Curry in 2009, there was no legitimate opportunity to do that for Ja Morant a decade later.
One draft pick away from greatness. As NBA marketing campaigns go, you could do better. Much better.
“When I got drafted,” Steph Curry would say years later, “I thought I was going to New York, and didn’t really have Golden State on the radar at all.” In fairness, though the Knicks could have traded up for Curry in 2009, there was no legitimate opportunity to do that for Morant a decade later. Morant did sit down with the Knicks before the 2019 draft and did call it “a great meeting,” yet he said he’d never been to New York and didn’t make the big city a preference the way RJ Barrett did.
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