Knicks Pick Frye and Finally Trade Thomas
By HOWARD BECK
Published: June 29, 2005
The Knicks embarked on their latest radical makeover last night, drafting a new center and trading one of their stalwarts of the last seven years.
With the eighth pick in the draft, the Knicks selected Channing Frye of Arizona. An hour later, they completed a trade that sent Kurt Thomas, their best rebounder and interior defender, to the Phoenix Suns.
The Knicks received the swingman Quentin Richardson and the rights to the point guard Nate Robinson, who was taken with the 21st pick by the Suns. Phoenix also received the Knicks' second-round pick, the 54th selection over all.
An equal cheer greeted the news of the Thomas-Richardson trade, a widely anticipated deal that had been in the works for about a week. It was held up because of insurance issues related to a back injury Richardson sustained in 2004.
The insurance issue was never resolved, but the Knicks elected to make the trade anyway, with the Suns offsetting the risk by putting the 21st pick in the deal. Under original terms of the deal, the Knicks would have received a future first-round pick, which likely would have been much lower.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/sports/basketball/29knicks.html
By HOWARD BECK
Published: June 29, 2005
The Knicks embarked on their latest radical makeover last night, drafting a new center and trading one of their stalwarts of the last seven years.
With the eighth pick in the draft, the Knicks selected Channing Frye of Arizona. An hour later, they completed a trade that sent Kurt Thomas, their best rebounder and interior defender, to the Phoenix Suns.
The Knicks received the swingman Quentin Richardson and the rights to the point guard Nate Robinson, who was taken with the 21st pick by the Suns. Phoenix also received the Knicks' second-round pick, the 54th selection over all.
An equal cheer greeted the news of the Thomas-Richardson trade, a widely anticipated deal that had been in the works for about a week. It was held up because of insurance issues related to a back injury Richardson sustained in 2004.
The insurance issue was never resolved, but the Knicks elected to make the trade anyway, with the Suns offsetting the risk by putting the 21st pick in the deal. Under original terms of the deal, the Knicks would have received a future first-round pick, which likely would have been much lower.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/sports/basketball/29knicks.html
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