Over the weekend there were a bunch of rumors going around that the Knicks could trade Iman Shumpert. The Knicks better stop playing!!! That’s ridiculous. Well the Knicks, coach Mike Woodson, Carmelo Anthony & the man himself all reacted to the rumors.
Check out what they all had to say…
According to Ian Begley at ESPN:
The New York Knicks are listening to trade offers for Iman Shumpert, but a team source said a deal that would send the second-year guard to the Phoenix Suns for Jared Dudleyas part of a multiplayer package is “unlikely at this point.”
“I don’t really care,” Shumpert said following Sunday’s loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. “I’ve just got to play ball. I can’t control it anyway. There’s nothing to worry about — something I can’t control.”
Knicks coach Mike Woodson downplayed the situation when asked about it Sunday.
“Those are just trade rumors,” he said.
The Suns have shown interest in acquiring Shumpert, a league source confirmed.
“We don’t need to make no moves,” Knicks star Carmelo Anthony told ESPNNewYork.com. “No, we’re good. … What are we going to go get? I don’t know what we going to go get for (Shumpert).”
“Shump, he ain’t going nowhere,” Anthony said Sunday. “He ain’t got to worry about that. The Knicks shouldn’t even be in trade talks.”
“We’ve got a lot of faith in him,” Woodson said Sunday. “Again, his lateral movement is not where I think it should be and his timing is off a little bit, and that’s expected. I mean, we’re not playing him big minutes because he’s somewhat still on restricted minutes as well. So we’re going to continue to nurse him and bring him along slowly, and he’ll be fine. When it counts, he’ll be there I think.”
