The New York Knicks, going for another ring with this surprising signing: he is a number 2 in the draft

The New York Knicks They add more wood to the paint in search of alleviating the loss of a stronghold like Mitchell Robinson and they do it with a number 2 in the draft: James Wisemanwho has signed for one year and the veteran’s minimum, about 3 million dollars.

Without salary space, the New York team has also decided to cut Bruce Brown. Wiseman will be the third player in the ‘5’ rotation behind Karl-Anthony Towns and the veteran Andrew Drummondincorporated this summer.

The 25-year-old, 2.13-meter-high center has convinced the Knicks as a very valid option from the bench after they brought him in in September to test him during the preseason. Wiseman has signed some very good numbers of 8 points and 4 rebounds with 81% shooting from the field in 11.5 minutes played in four games. He doesn’t defend and rebound anything like Robinson, but he is a good third alternative for the ‘5’.

The current NBA champions give the interior the opportunity to star in a beautiful story of redemption under the lights of the Madison Square Garden. The premiere will be one of magnitude, against LeBron James’ fearsome Philadelphia 76ers in the early hours of Tuesday to Wednesday, the evening in which the Knicks will receive their championship ring.

Wiseman was chosen 2 in the draft by the Warriors in 2020 and was one of the symbols of the Golden State’s failed policy of continuing to prioritize the present with an eye on more rings, but without neglecting the future.

The interior was part of the 2022 champion Warriors but did not develop as quickly as the Bay team needed and financial pressure led the Warriors to transfer him to the Detroit Pistons in the middle of the 2022-2023 season. James Wiseman suffered an abrupt setback, going from the then-reigning champions to the worst team in the NBA, the Pistons at that time.

The Tennessee center signed with the Indiana Pacers in the summer of 2024 but tore his Achilles tendon in his debut and after returning in 2025 he was released at the end of last year by Indiana. From the second worst team in the NBA like the Pacers were last year, Wiseman now goes on to play for the current champions. The turns that life takes for the worse but also for the better. No place to re-emerge like the Basketball Cathedral.