Report: Frank Kaminsky to meet with Knicks next week

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The Knicks are working out all different kinds of prospects, even guys you'd never imagine they'd take with the fourth pick in the draft. Now, it appears that list includes Wisconsin star Frank Kaminsky.

From Marc Berman of the New York Post:

The best player in college basketball, whom some Knicks fans would like to see them trade down in the draft in order to snatch, 7-foot senior Frank Kaminsky, is tentatively scheduled to meet with the club next Tuesday and Wednesday in New York, according to a league source.

Talks are taking place to finalize the visit. Kaminsky, the Naismith College Player of the Year, who led Wisconsin to the NCAA title game, interviewed with Knicks president Phil Jackson last month at the Chicago combine. Kaminsky, pegged at No. 8 to Detroit in a recent DraftExpress.com mock draft, told Jackson: “I’m 22 years old and I get treated like I’m 65 going into the NBA.’’

Kaminsky, working out in Santa Barbara, Calif., with agent Bill Duffy’s stable of players, may be the prospect most ready to contribute next season but without the upside of, say, point guard Emmanuel Mudiay, who worked out for the Knicks Tuesday after having dinner with team officials a night earlier. Mudiay skipped the Chicago combine.

The Justise Winslow/Mudiay back-to-back workouts Monday and Tuesday are considered pivotal as the pair are neck-and-neck in the running to be selected at No. 4 if the Knicks don’t trade down. The chances of either center Jahlil Okafor or point guard D’Angelo Russell slipping past the Lakers and Sixers at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively, appear remote.

Kaminsky averaged 18.8 points and 8.2 rebounds per game for Wisconsin this past season, but you'd have to imagine he has no chance at going inside the top five, though top 10 wouldn't be a stretch. The Knicks, though, are thinking about trading their pick. If they field an option enticing enough to unload and trade down, maybe Kaminsky would be in their sights.

(H/t to Marc Berman of the New York Post)