Knicks head coach Mike Brown challenged his reserves during training camp: fight for every minute, find ways to impact each game. <\/p>\n
The 2nd quarter has so far offered a glimpse of guys answering that challenge. <\/p>\n
Jordan Clarkson scores 4 points in 5 minutes, Jose Alvarado ignites things with 5 points off the bench. <\/p>\n
But I\u2019m burying the lede (as we journalists like to say) – let’s talk about Andre Drummond. He has played 14 minutes and already logged a double-double: 10 points, 11 rebounds (and a steal!) against his old team. Yep, Andre Drummond was a Sixer LAST season. He lost to the Knicks, had to watch them get their rings tonight\u2026wearing a Knicks uniform. Talk about a range of emotions! <\/p>\n
Okay, on top of it,\u00a0 Drummond grew up in Connecticut – I covered him at UCONN – and has carved out a steady NBA career with a lot of stops. Here near his hometown, Drummond is crucial to the Knicks repeat plans, replacing Mitchell Robinson. So far, so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knicks head coach Mike Brown challenged his reserves during training camp: fight for every minute, find ways to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,1104,10,319],"class_list":["post-378527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378527","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=378527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}