This time of year is often so much about who is out there and available to draft, sign or trade.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But can the Knicks find replacements \u2014 or improvements \u2014 from within?\u00a0<\/p>\n
They have strong belief in their own player development abilities, and for good reason \u2014 much of the roster has benefited from it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jalen Brunson has emerged as a superstar, OG Anunoby grew into one of the best two-way players in the league, Josh Hart went from a journeyman to a key piece on a championship team, Landry Shamet went from clinging to the fringes of the league to a vital bench piece, Jordan Clarkson completely reinvented himself with the Knicks and Miles McBride from an NBA uncertainty to important contributor.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This time of year is often so much about who is out there and available to draft, sign…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,7939,105730,22612,9,11,1104,10,106102,319,428],"class_list":["post-275969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-nba-draft-2026","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-pacome-dadiet","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}