{"id":134716,"date":"2025-09-11T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134716\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:50:08","slug":"fil-am-jordan-clarkson-reveals-reason-for-joining-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134716\/","title":{"rendered":"Fil-Am Jordan Clarkson reveals reason for joining New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Jordan Clarkson the missing piece the New York Knicks need to finally end their 52-year title drought? | Photo: Utah Jazz <\/p>\n<p>For Jordan Clarkson, choosing to sign with the New York Knicks wasn\u2019t about contracts, roles or numbers \u2014 it was about energy.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe arena, honestly. Feeling the energy from the fans. Knowing they\u2019re going to let you have it. But when you\u2019re playing great, it\u2019s all love,\u201d Clarkson said on a taping in \u2018The Roommates\u2019 podcast \u2014 hosted by his newest teammates in superstar Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nypost\/status\/1964563749890592922\" rel=\"nofollow\">per the New York Post<\/a>.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cAt the end of the day, I just want to feel the energy. Get to play with y\u2019all.\u201d&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Speaking for the first time since his bolt to the Big Apple, the 33-year-old recalled the moment his agent, Rich Paul, asked where he wanted to go after finalizing a buyout with the Utah Jazz.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[ALSO READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nba.onesports.ph\/read\/jordan-clarkson-new-york-knicks-utah-jazz-contract-buyout\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Clarkson to join New York Knicks after finalizing buyout with Utah Jazz\u2014reports<\/a>]&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson, who was attending a Carlos Alcaraz match at Wimbledon at the time, didn\u2019t hesitate.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018I wanna come to New York.\u2019 It all happened in two minutes. Then I was a Knick,\u201d he shared.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>[ALSO READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nba.onesports.ph\/read\/jordan-clarkson-reaction-new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Clarkson acknowledges Knicks signing with optimistic social media post<\/a>]&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Clarkson averaged 16.2 points, 3.7 assists and 3.2 rebounds in 37 games for the Jazz last season, shooting nearly 50% from the field and 36.2% from\u00a0deep.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>A second round pick by the LA Lakers in 2014, the Filipino-American gunner then got traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2018 and then again to the Utah Jazz in 2019 where he spent his last six seasons.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>It is in Salt Lake City where he blossomed and became the 2021 Sixth Man of the Year \u2013 becoming the first and only Jazz player to win the award so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>New York reached its first Eastern Conference finals in 25 years last season before falling in six games to the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>And with his arrival to the Knicks, Clarkson said he hopes to build on that success.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cY\u2019all been doing great things over here. I just want to come in here and enhance what y\u2019all got going on,\u201d he said.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks also added Guerschon Yabusele this offseason and brought in new head coach Mike Brown to replace Tom Thibodeau.<\/p>\n<p>[ALSO READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nba.onesports.ph\/read\/mike-brown-new-york-knicks-head-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks to hire Mike Brown as next head coach\u2014reports<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\u2014&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Pao Ambat earned his journalism degree from Cavite State University in 2022.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Passionate about sports from a young age, he primarily covers the NBA for One Sports, while also assisting in reporting on the PVL, PBA, UAAP, and other leagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Jordan Clarkson the missing piece the New York Knicks need to finally end their 52-year title drought?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-134716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}