The New York Knicks chosen Marquette’s Tyler Kolek with the thirty fourth choose (through Portland) within the second spherical of the 2024 NBA Draft on Thursday afternoon.
The 6-foot-3 level guard averaged a career-high 15.1 factors per recreation throughout his senior yr the place he began all 31 video games he performed in.
Kolek earned loads of accolades throughout his three years at Marquette after transferring from George Mason following his freshman yr. He was named two-time All Massive-East, was the 2022-23 Massive East Participant of the 12 months and was named Massive East Match MVP in 2023.
The Cumberland, Rhode Island native additionally had a career-best in assists (7.7), rebounds (4.9) and free throw proportion (85 p.c) in 2023.
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Here is a scouting report through ESPN’s Jonathan Givony on Kolek:
“Kolek picked opposing defenses aside final season out of pick-and-rolls, whipping the ball round to shooters, attending to floaters and proving opportunistic in taking pictures; he hit 39% of his photographs from past the arc. His common instruments may make him divisive amongst NBA groups, however his strategy and really feel for the sport will attraction to franchises searching for a backup level guard.”
That is the second choose the Knicks have made within the draft after deciding on 18-year-old French prospect Pacome Dadiet twenty fifth general Wednesday evening.
It has been every week stuffed with strikes for the franchise, as they made the commerce of the offseason thus far, buying Mikal Bridges and a 2026 second spherical choose from the Nets for Bojan Bogdanovic, 4 unprotected first spherical picks (2025, 2027, 2029, and 2031), a 2025 protected first spherical choose (through Milwaukee), a 2025 second spherical choose and unprotected choose swap in 2028.
Yesterday, the Knicks determined to signal O.G. Anunoby, who they traded for previous to final season’s commerce deadline, to an enormous five-year, $212.5 million deal.