The Knicks continue to re-shape their front office, according to Shams Charania of The Vertical, who reports that Bucks executive Craig Robinson is accepting a job with New York.
Robinson will fill multiple roles for the Knicks, working in a player development capacity, per Charania. It’s not clear exactly who Robinson will report to, but he’ll work in the club’s new-look front office under president Steve Mills and general manager Scott Perry.
Robinson, who served as the Bucks’ vice president of player and organizational development, played college basketball alongside Mills at Princeton from 1979 to 1981 and is the brother-in-law of former President Barack Obama.
With Phil Jackson out and Perry and Robinson in, it will be interesting to see what other changes the Knicks make to their front office this summer. Charania’s report suggests that Robinson will take over as the GM of the Westchester Knicks, New York’s G League affiliate. However, that role is currently held by Allan Houston, and Ian Begley of ESPN suggests Houston will continue to work in that position.
While Houston may not be impacted significantly by the hiring of Robinson, the future of Knicks executive Clarence Gaines – a Jackson hire – is less certain.
Craig Robinson – talk about a blast from the past.
I remember him coaching – or should I say “haunting” – the Oregon State basketball program for six years. He finished with an impressive 39-69 (.362) Pac-10/12 conference record and it’s been very obvious that he only kept his job through all these years due to his kinship with the Obama clan.
That man represents the epitome of incompetence. He’ll fit right in with the Knicks.
Lmao “the Obama clan.”
You can’t make this stuff up if you tried.