The one acquisition, it’s exhausting to overlook him. It’s exhausting to miss him, or overstate what he’s been to this point this 12 months. That’s Karl-Anthony Cities. From the bounce, he’s made completely clear the impression he can have on these Knicks, and he retains exhibiting extra. You didn’t know he might cross the ball along with scoring and rebounding? You positive know now.
Thought he could be a tad on the mushy aspect, since that’s the way in which among the whispers went in Minneapolis and, actually, all the way in which again to Kentucky? Properly, for his second straight recreation, he was banged up so badly that he briefly took to the ground to assemble himself. Wednesday it was his knee. This time it was his again.
Each instances he performed on. And Sunday, he was a game-high 26 factors and a game-high 15 rebounds because the Knicks swept their weekend get-together with the Nets, 114-104. Sure. There’s been little doubt about Cities’ impression.
Mikal Bridges?