The Knicks are going to Charleston to open training camp, which they did in the 1990s.
New York Got Game: Introducing a new show all about basketball in the Big AppleIt was the first day of training camp for the Knicks, the very first time Pat Riley led a session in Charleston.
“Anthony Mason was, by nature, a cantankerous, difficult personality. He was just that way,” Dave Checketts, the Knicks’ former top executive, told The Post. “And I wasn’t sure that I thought he should stick around. But Riles was sold on him after that. He said, ‘That’s exactly the kind of guy I want to coach.’”
There’s a big change — they’re training at The Citadel, rather than the College of Charleston. But it’s the franchise’s first time in the Holy City in 16 years. “Riles wanted to go away,” former Knicks GM Ernie Grunfeld told The Post. “At first, we looked at Jamaica at an Air Force base. But I think it was [former Hawks coach] Mike Fratello who told us to look into the College of Charleston. And it was perfect.”
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