Knicks executives have arrived in Las Vegas, their work in free agency complete, with six new faces signed up to try to change the fortunes of the team. But it isn't the Summer League schedule that will determine whether they actually did their work right.
We already know it didn't quite work out the way the team pictured months ago. That's when they were intent on signing the top stars on the free-agent market, with the Kevin Durant-Kyrie Irving combination providing star power the organization hadn't seen in a long time.
Now word has filtered out through the organization that team president Steve Mills and general manager Scott Perry decided to call off the possibility of meeting with Kawhi Leonard because his schedule _ putting off a meeting with them after sitting down with the Clippers and Lakers in Los Angeles on Tuesday _ didn't match up with what they had on their schedule.