{"id":780109,"date":"2026-07-07T01:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/780109\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T01:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:54:24","slug":"what-andre-drummond-brings-to-knicks-post-mitchell-robinson-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/780109\/","title":{"rendered":"What Andre Drummond brings to Knicks&#8217; post-Mitchell Robinson world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it didn\u2019t feel real before, Mitchell Robinson painting his truck in Celtics green cemented the reality that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/01\/sports\/mitchell-robinson-leaves-knicks-for-celtics-in-nba-free-agency\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he is no longer a Knick.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That means both the good and bad \u2014 on and off the court \u2014 that came with him will no longer be part of the Knicks equation. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/04\/sports\/knicks-new-center-thinks-he-can-fill-mitchell-robinson-void\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instead, it will be Andre Drummond \u2014<\/a> for a fraction of the price \u2014 the Knicks will rely on next year to be an impactful backup center.<\/p>\n<p>How do Robinson and Drummond compare? What differences should be expected? What, exactly, are the Knicks getting with their new big man?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s break it down:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If it didn\u2019t feel real before, Mitchell Robinson painting his truck in Celtics green cemented the reality that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[3845,7,304,1247,6,3269,1136,191,3810,3806,66,196],"class_list":["post-780109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-knicks","tag-andre-drummond","tag-basketball","tag-knicks","tag-mitchell-robinson","tag-nba","tag-nba-free-agency","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkknicks","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116876205338026295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780109","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=780109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}