GREENBURGH, N.Y. – When the Knicks begin training camp here on Saturday, the roster will feature 10 new players from last year’s team that won just 29 games.
The star attraction is forward
Amar’e Stoudemire, who signed a five-year, $99.7 million deal in the offseason and boldly proclaimed, “The Knicks are back.”
The Knicks also brought in point guard
Raymond Felton, 7-foot-1 Russian center
Timofey Mozgov and three players in the
David Lee trade, athletic forward
Anthony Randolph, big man
Ronny Turiaf and shooting guard
Kelenna Azubuike, who will miss the start of camp while rehabbing from patellar tendon surgery last November. The average age of the team is 24.6.
The Knicks are young, athletic and unproven but president
Donnie Walsh and head coach
Mike D’Antoni believe they have the potential to make the playoffs for the first time since 2004.
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