Knicks’ “Session” Gets Timed Out

Picture this: June 25, 2009.  The NBA Draft at Madison Square Garden.  The Knicks are optimistic they can land a point guard with the eighth overall pick in the draft after the first four picks are point guard free.  Minnesota owns the fifth and sixth picks.  With the fifth pick the Timberwolves select Ricky Rubio, a point guard from Spain.  With the sixth pick the T’wolves select Syracuse point guard Jonny Flynn.  One last coveted point guard remains and the Knicks are second in line.  With the seventh pick the Warriors select point guard Stephen Curry from Davidson.  The top three point guards are off the table.  The Knicks select Arizona power forward Jordan Hill with the eighth pick.  

No one could have predicted this.  After no point guards were taken in the first four picks, it was a forgone conclusion one of the three top point guards were going to drop to the Knicks.  The T-wolves wouldn’t take two point guards back-to-back.  They would take one of the point guards, but not two.  No way.

How wrong we were.  

Now the T-wolves have done it again.  Point guard Ramon Sessions, who has been on the Knicks radar this summer and several times was reported to be close to signing with the Knicks, has been signed to an offer sheet by the T’wolves.  The Milwaukee Bucks have seven days to match the offer.  

T-wolves 3, Knicks 0.  

This leaves the Knicks out of options this summer.  The only real business they have left is David Lee and Nate Robinson.  Donnie Walsh and the Knicks have struck out in this summer’s free agency.  Hopefully they are saving the free agent signings for next summer.