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New York Knicks NBA Draft History: 1992

By Rob Wolkenbrod

NEW YORK CITY - OCTOBER 1: Hubert Davis #44 of the New York Knicks poses for a portrait on October 1, 1992 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 1992 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
NEW YORK CITY - OCTOBER 1: Hubert Davis #44 of the New York Knicks poses for a portrait on October 1, 1992 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 1992 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images) /
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The 1992 NBA Draft provided the New York Knicks with just one pick, in the first round. Who became the player chosen?

The 1991-92 New York Knicks rose with Pat Riley as the head coach, finishing 51-31. They fell in seven games to the Chicago Bulls, but still walked away with one of the franchise’s best records in recent memory.

So the 1992 NBA Draft had the chance to add to it. With just one pick, and in the first round, the Knicks landed the 20th overall selection. They did not have a draft choice in the second round, making this the only pick to add to the next roster.

While the Knicks did not walk away with a class headliner like Shaquille O’Neal or Alonzo Mourning, who did they pick?

Hubert Davis. 20. player. 27. . G. North Carolina

Slash Line (with Knicks): .474/.449/.830
Career Averages (with Knicks): 9.5 PPG, 1.4 RPG, 1.9 APG, 0.5 SPG, 0.1 BPG, 1.2 3PM

The three-point shot was on the rise in the ’90s, with more players becoming proficient from behind the arc. Reggie Miller was, perhaps, the biggest name to fulfill this, and role players on playoff contenders spaced the floor for the inside-the-arc, star-driven teams.

Hubert Davis was hardly a star, but he fit with the New York Knicks as a three-point shooting role player that fit the mid-90s teams and translate to the modern-day NBA look.

The Knicks chose Davis from North Carolina, after delivering 21.4 points per game as a senior. He shot the ball well then, with a career 43.5 percent mark from distance in school. It took a few seasons to reach that in the pros, but as a second-year pro he shot 47.1 percent and 40.2 percent on three-pointers for 11 points. This happened on the 1994 NBA Finals team.

Davis delivered two more seasons in New York of those numbers, including 45.5 percent on three’s in 1994-95. One more year of superior figures helped his case as a backcourt floor spacer off the bench, until the 1996 trade to Toronto — where he struggled mightily in just one season — for a first-round pick.

Davis returned to value in 1996-97, becoming a sharpshooter for the Dallas Mavericks off the bench in a sixth-man role, including a career-high 49.1 percent mark in his specialty area.

Parts of four years in Dallas led to brief stops in Washington, Detroit and New Jersey, before calling it a career in 2003-04.

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The next New York Knicks draft retrospective covers the 1994 class — since there were no picks made in 1993 — after just falling short of an NBA title to the Houston Rockets.

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