New York Knicks: How does Kevin Knox fit into the long-term plan?

The future of New York Knicks forward Kevin Knox is uncertain, and there may only be a few options left for him to succeed with the team that drafted him.

New York Knicks forward Kevin Knox has had a frustrating sophomore year playing for a Knicks team in transition, yet again. The Knicks’ season had pretty much lost all hope by the time David Fizdale was fired after a 4-18 start, and then the team traded their most productive offensive player Marcus Morris Sr. at the trade deadline for a first-round pick.

You would think trading Morris, who plays the same position as Knox, would have been an opportunity for the Kentucky forward, but Knox somehow saw his minutes decrease once Morris was traded.

Knox was the 8th overall pick in the 2018 draft and ranks 32nd in minutes per game this season among his draft class peers. That’s unheard of.

For a rebuilding team like the Knicks, while you want to have aspirations of competing for a playoff spot, when it’s the middle of the season and those ambitious playoff hopes have died, you focus on developing the youth. The Knicks have failed to do so, and now there are more questions about Kevin Knox than ever.

All indications point to New York making significant changes to their roster for the 2020-2021 season. They have the ability to get rid of the majority of their veterans at a low cost, they have money to spend in free agency, and for the first time in a long-while, they have multiple draft picks.

The team seems to very much want to be in an “accelerated rebuild” like their MSG roommate, the New York Rangers. They want to balance developing youth and establishing a winning culture.

After a lost sophomore season, how does Kevin Knox fit into that plan?