Former All-Stars welcomes all the top players to the New York Knicks

The New York Knicks have gotten off to a slow start this season, winning just four of the team’s first nine games.

While the team hasn’t started off the way it particularly wanted to, former Knicks point guard and NBA All-Star Stephon Marbury offered an optimistic opinion about New York moving forward this season.

“We’re a team that just changed some guys from last year, so we’re still trying to improve, we’re still trying to get better. So we welcome all top 75 players to come to New York, as long as they fit within the system.” Marbury said h/t Posting and Toasting.

Marbury offered a solution for what the Knicks can look like to get better.

“I think we can win a championship with our team, but I do think adding pieces is always something that helps,” Marbury said.

This means that the Knicks According to Marbury, you shouldn’t try to take a few steps and acquire talent. The Knicks have been aggressive on that front over the past 12 months, trading for OG Anunoby, Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns, who now make up 60 percent of the team’s starting lineup.

In those transactions the Knicks have wasted much of their depth and future draft capital, leaving them with a bare chest of assets to use in future deals. However, the creativity of Leon Rose and the Knicks front office cannot be understated, and the team will look to make some changes and upgrades if New York feels the need to do so.

These trades likely won’t happen in the next few weeks, but once the December 15 deadline comes and goes, lifting a trade exception for players signed this offseason, the Knicks could get aggressive with their trades again.

The Knicks are back in action tonight when they take on the Philadelphia 76ers.

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