The Knicks solely have two preseason video games remaining, and head coach Tom Thibodeau is “hopeful” that second-year guard Quentin Grimes will get into a minimum of considered one of them.
The 2021 first-round draft choose has sat out every of the workforce’s first two preseason contests — sharp victories over the Pistons and the Pacers on the Backyard — with a foot harm.
“I’m hopeful. Every day, he’s achieved increasingly more. And so there’s a development to it,” Thibodeau stated after the Knicks held an open observe in entrance of choose followers Sunday at Columbia. “He just about did the whole lot in the present day in observe, so we’ll see how he feels [Monday]. Simply comply with the plan. We all know what he can do.”
Thibodeau had stated at the beginning of coaching camp that he anticipated veteran Evan Fournier to open the season because the beginning capturing guard forward of Grimes, who averaged 6.1 factors over 45 appearances as a rookie.
The Knicks will go to Indiana on Wednesday earlier than returning to the Backyard on Friday for his or her preseason finale in opposition to the Wizards.
Requested if it’s vital for the 22-year-old Grimes to see some preseason motion, Thibodeau added, “The factor is, like, he by far most likely put in additional work than anybody all summer time. So I’m not anxious about that [conditioning] facet of it. We see him day-after-day, generally a number of occasions in a day. And so it’s each time he’s able to go. That is extra precautionary proper now, so I do know he’ll be able to go.”
The Knicks hadn’t held their annual open observe at Columbia prior to now two years as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, however Thibodeau praised the followers as “particular” and stated “it feels much more like we’re getting again to regular.”
“Knicks followers are nice. They’re passionate, they’re very participating, so it’s nice to have the ability to come out right here and speak to them and see all of the younger youngsters,” Immanuel Quickley added. “That is my third yr and we haven’t had the prospect to do that, so this was fairly cool.
“To get an opportunity to work together with the followers, I used to be as soon as that little child that was attempting to speak to the NBA gamers, so it was cool to have the ability to give again.”
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