Donte DiVincenzo was reportedly sad with the New York Knicks earlier than he was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves, however the guard is now occurring the file to dispute that.
DiVincenzo mentioned forward of Sunday’s preseason sport that there was no fact to claims that he was sad with the prospect of being changed by Mikal Bridges within the beginning lineup forward of the brand new season. The previous Villanova star added that he had not even given a lot thought to his position, as nothing had been established but.
“I don’t know the way that form of picked up pace nevertheless it’s fully unfaithful,” DiVincenzo told Stefan Bondy of the New York Post. “You may take a look at the group I’m on proper now — there’s going to be some video games I begin, and there’s going to be lots of video games I come off the bench.
“Clearly everybody needs to start out coming off the season I had final 12 months, however I additionally perceive that there’s totally different lineups and totally different mixtures that groups need to get to — I perceive that. It was by no means a factor of, ‘Oh, we acquired Mikal, I’m pissed off.’ I used to be tremendous excited. … There was by no means a dialog of my position was going to be diminished. There was by no means a job that my minutes could be diminished. It was the skin assumption and ran with it and it was unfaithful.”
DiVincenzo began 63 video games for the Knicks final season, however the assumption was he would head to the bench after the commerce for Bridges. Some experiences claimed DiVincenzo was unhappy about that, and he was shipped to the Minnesota Timberwolves as a part of the Karl-Anthony Cities deal.
DiVincenzo averaged a career-high 15.5 factors per sport for the Knicks final 12 months, and he shot 40 % from three-point vary for the primary time in his NBA profession.
