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Position: C
Born: 04/01/98
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:280 lbs. / 127 kg.
Salary: $14,318,182
Scouting report
Born: 04/01/98
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:280 lbs. / 127 kg.
Salary: $14,318,182
Scouting report
Mitchell Robinson thought to be the answer to Knicks defensive woes?
In talking with scouts and executives about New York, center Mitchell Robinson is brought up repeatedly as a potential fix for New York’s issues with Towns at center. Robinson, however, has missed more than 20 games in three of the past four seasons. He played just 31 games last year and is out for several more weeks due to offseason ankle surgery.
The Knicks also led the NBA in offensive rebounding last year, but with Towns replacing the Hartenstein-Robinson duo — and with Precious Achiuwa also sidelined to start the season — they have pulled down 29 offensive boards through three games to rank 27th in the league through Monday’s action. “I think it’s just consistent effort,” Thibodeau said. “You’ve got to keep going. I think when you force a defense to collapse and you put them in rotation, you get the movement and it’s drive pass-pass, there’s going to be opportunities on shots that are missed to go get it.
Thibodeau called coming together “the challenge with any team,” but it hasn’t been easy after the Knicks overhauled last year’s 50-win squad with the departures of Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo in the Towns trade with Minnesota and Isaiah Hartenstein via free agency. Big men Mitchell Robinson and Precious Achiuwa also are injured to start the season. “That’s why you put everything you have into each and every day and you strive for improvement,” Thibodeau said. “The games reveal exactly where you are, it tells you the things you need to work on, and even if it’s going well, if you have slippage, you’re gonna have to sort it out.
“I think they’re different players in some ways, but similar in others,” Thibodeau said. “I think Julius is more of a power forward, but a terrific player. When you look at what he did for us, the scoring, the passing, rebounding, but it’s at the power forward position. “We had a great need obviously with Mitchell Robinson [injured] and Isaiah [Hartenstein] losing [him] in free agency. We needed a center. That was a big part of it, so I think the center position … when I look at Karl, I like his versatility and his size is important to us.”
10 Oct
Mitchell Robinson targeting January return from injury
New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson is targeting a season debut in January as he rehabs two ankle procedures over the last year, sources told ESPN. Robinson and the Knicks are expected to take a cautious approach to his return after he played in only 31 games last season. He underwent ankle surgery in December, again hurt a foot/ankle during New York’s first-round playoff series against the 76ers, and he missed the final six games of the second-round series against the Indiana Pacers.
Although Thibodeau declined to provide a timeline for Robinson’s recovery, a league source targeted December or January as a rough estimate, depending on the progress of rehab.
“The health of Mitchell Robinson definitely played a factor. From what I’m told, it’s going to be multiple months—three months potentially. This is something the Knicks are racing for, and that’s their hope, their expectation now. But we’ve seen with Mitchell Robinson, when exactly will that be? He came back from a procedure last year for the playoffs, and then it ended up not looking great. He didn’t look right. He needed another surgery. He’s dealt with a lot over the last year or two to stay on the floor.”
“This pursuit of Karl-Anthony Towns really picked up steam over the last, I think, week, two weeks when the Knicks started calling Minnesota about him,” said Shams Charania on the Throwbacks podcast. “Making offers. Making concepts of offers. They were just given hard no’s repeatedly. Way back, even around draft time, July, and into the months of August, a lot of the offers Knicks were conceptually discussing, from what I’m told, were around Julius Randle and Mitchell Robinson.”