It’s been an amazing three weeks and a real privilege to
watch it all happen, but this is the last of my basketball reports.
Langston Galloway has been signed to The New York Knicks
after a couple of days of real ‘hardball’.
It’s been amazing because over these few weeks Lang got his
big chance to play for a Major League team and we got a chance to see him play
for them….by accident.
Then, playing for a great team which was having a terrible
season, Lang had a burst of fantastic form which made everybody realise how
good he was.
I was following his games on fans websites and reading US
sports reports stats – I couldn’t believe how well it was going.
And now?
What a fantastic career he is going to have.
New York
Post.
Langston
Galloway, Knicks agree to contract for 2015-16
By Marc
Berman
January 27,
2015 | 10:54am
Unheralded
Knicks guard Langston Galloway became a free agent when his 10-day contract
expired Tuesday.
The Knicks
and point guard Langston Galloway have agreed to terms on a contract for the
remainder of this season and a partially guaranteed pact for 2015-16, The Post
has learned, after the rookie’s second 10-day contract expired Tuesday.
The
negotiations were over whether the Knicks were willing to give Galloway guaranteed
money for next season. The Knicks — who cancelled Tuesday’s practice because of
the snowstorm — initially offered only a non-guaranteed pact for 2015-16.
Galloway was asking for the $800,000 minimum for second-year players.
Galloway
was briefly a free agent Tuesday morning, technically, and may have gained
leverage with other teams interested in signing him after a breakout month of
January.
Knicks
president Phil Jackson is very protective of his cap space, with potentially
$32 million available to spend on free agents this offseason.
Jackson
didn’t exercise the $2 million option on Shane Larkin’s pact for next season –
with indications he does not believe the undersized, speedy point guard is part
of the Knicks’ future.
Galloway
has been one of the positive developments to an otherwise brutal season since
joining the team three weeks ago from the team’s D-League affiliate in Westchester.
Galloway also was on the team’s summer-league squad after going undrafted. It
was surprising any contract impasse occurred at all.
The
6-foot-2 Galloway, who has started the past four games, is averaging 12.1 points
and 4.1 rebounds and 3.0 assists.
Go Lang!
Neil Harris
Neil Harris
(a don’t stop till you drop production)
Contact me: neilwithpromisestokeep@gmail.com
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