Is Iman Shumpert a Legitimate Building Block for NY Knicks?

April 12th, 2014 by Jim Cavan Leave a reply »

As with countless kingdoms and countries throughout history, any time a new regime usurps the old, courtiers and congressmen walk about wondering whether a tap on the shoulder means guaranteed good graces or a trip to the gallows.

In the case of the New York Knicks' Iman Shumpert, all indications are that Phil Jackson, the team’s newly anointed president of basketball operations, has happier designs in mind for his team’s third-year shooting guard.

That’s a good thing for both Shumpert and the Knicks.

While Jackson has been publicly mum on whom he sees as part of New York’s forthcoming rebuild, ESPN New York’s Ian Begley has reported Shumpert is indeed part of the picture:

Shumpert’s name was floated in several trade rumors throughout the first few months of the year. The Knicks nearly completed a deal with the Los Angeles Clippers to flip Shumpert for Darren Collison prior to the Feb. 20 trade deadline. It seemed at the time that the Knicks would revisit talks to trade Shumpert at some point in the 2014 offseason. But the team then hired Phil Jackson to serve as president. ...

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