{"id":767370,"date":"2026-06-22T06:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/767370\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T06:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:03:19","slug":"five-potential-knicks-targets-in-2026-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/767370\/","title":{"rendered":"Five potential Knicks targets in 2026 NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knicks\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/20\/sports\/knicks-road-to-an-nba-championship-repeat-could-be-rocky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">path to a repeat<\/a> begins this week, as Leon Rose and Co. start to put together next year\u2019s roster.<\/p>\n<p>Free agency is over a week away, but how the Knicks proceed with two picks in the top 31 of the loaded draft could offer hints of which free agents they hope to keep.<\/p>\n<p>Key reserves Mitchell Robinson, Landry Shamet and Jordan Clarkson <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/19\/sports\/breaking-down-knicks-looming-decisions-with-pending-free-agents\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aren\u2019t under contract<\/a>, and Jose Alvarado has a $4.5 million player option.<\/p>\n<p>The Post takes a look at five prospects that could be there for the Knicks at No. 24, No. 31 or both spots, and make sense given their roster composition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks\u2019 path to a repeat begins this week, as Leon Rose and Co. start to put together&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,6,12,1136,191,3810,3806,66,196,218,219],"class_list":["post-767370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-knicks","tag-basketball","tag-knicks","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkknicks","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-st-johns-red-storm","tag-zuby-ejiofor"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116792249809058917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}