He is a Future STAR for the Knicks…

He is a Future STAR for the Knicks…

Could the New York Knicks have a future star in the g-league that is the question that we are asking ourselves today as Jacob toppen has been balling out in there and has potentially been the best NBA g-league player in 2024 so we have to talk about this

What’s up guys welcome back to Nick digest it’s Chris here and we’re going to jump right into the video today happy Super Bowl Sunday everybody we all got some football to watch unless you’re just a basketball fan so get ready cuz we got some Jacob toppen news as he had

A g-league career h in both points and rebounds the other night against the Birmingham Squadron as he put up 40 points and 16 rebounds on the New York or on the Westchester Knicks way to a victory now I understand this is the Westchester Knicks I understand this is

The NBA G League I understand this is against NBA G league players the G league and the NBA are very different the NBA G league is not the second best league in the world that goes to some of the European leagues but the G League still is Rich full of talent especially

Because the NBA is trying to Market it for it to basically be the NBA’s minor leagues and have players able to come up through there for instance scoot Henderson we also have other guys coming through into the g-league ignite and then getting drafted which has been a

Strategy by the NBA to sort of prevent the oneandone rule from getting too hasty because people don’t love that you have to go to college for a year so instead of people picking overseas or just always picking College some people are picking the G league and is why

Scoot Henderson is about to play in his fourth yes fourth or third he’s a rookie so his third NBA Rising Stars game because of previous G League seasons and clearly what I’m trying to say here is there’s a ton of talent in the NBA G league today and

It’s not like scoring 40 points in the NBA G League say five years ago it is V it is vastly improved it has been something that Adam Silver has put a lot of focus into since becoming the NBA’s commissioner in 201 14 and we’ve seen it

Grow we’ve seen it Grow from the NBA D- League to the NBA G league and that is all in all mainly because of a Gatorade sponsorship but it’s also because the NBA wants more eyes on the G League they want people to look at it the same way

That people look at minor league baseball and that type of stuff and even hockey does have a lot of prospect leagues out there in America for instance the Washington Capitals have the Hershey Bears and stuff like that but let’s just focus on this really quickly because Obi toppen oh Jacob

Toppen is averaging 22 points per game while shooting over 50% from the field in 36 minutes played he’s also shooting nearly 38% from three shooting 85% from the free throw line and pulling down around nine rebounds per game also getting three assists job’s been balling

Out in the G league and we have seen him in four NBA games so far though all of them but one have been garbage time now I understand that’s what’s going to happen he’s a g- leager tibs does not play these guys but the Knicks are thin

Right now so you never know what could happen if you look at the one game that Jacob toppen played real minutes in he scored two points his only points in the NBA got two rebounds one offensive one defensive we saw him play decent style of basketball though he did definitely

Look a little bit nervous which you know is understandable I was kind of upset to see that Charlie Brown played more minutes than top and did just because toppen I feel like we’ve seen more of him in the G League we’ve seen him ball out in the G League before this is not

The first time we’re talking about how good Jacob toppen looks in the NBA g- league I wanted to see more of him than we did I wanted to see more of them than we saw of Charlie Brown especially because the Knicks were very thin on guards or at very thin on forwards and

Really everything they really are right now even still though bogdanovich and Burks are definitely helping out with that the Knicks have dropped their last two games they lost to the Pacers last night despite brunson’s 39 points because he’s an NBA superstar and they lost to the Mavericks when Brunson

Wasn’t there and the Nicks BAS basically just were throwing out the Westchester Knicks plus d venzo i mean Tosh Gibson started last night we should be playing Jacob top in real minutes if that’s the case what if he’s nice like what if he’s just good sometimes guys come out of the G league

And just happen to become really good players sometimes they become Allstars like Pascal cakam Fred Van vet was in the NBA G League both of those guys played an integral part on the Toronto Raptors winning the NBA finals in 2019 v v got got a massive contract passal is

Now on the Pacers and just got a three first round picks traded for him you never know what’s going to happen and Jacob toppen is showing that maybe he could be the next g-league guy to do this we know the Knicks are a high class organization we know how good they are

As a franchise and we know that this is what could happen when you’re ran by good management the Knicks have been ran by good management since Leon Rose took over and that has changed the way that the Knicks are perceived and they could be a team that is realistically figuring out guys in

The NBA g- league and how to make them tremendous players the way that the Miami he have done before the way that the Toronto rors have done before the way that we’ve seen the San Antonio Spurs develop players the Knicks could jump into this because of how high quality of an organization they

Have hopefully that’s what they try to do I mean also we’re going to see Jacob toppen get his first real chance at some Spotlight as along with Jaylen Brown M mclung and haime hwz Jr Jacob toppen will be in the the NBA dunk contest at Allstar Weekend we saw older brother Obi

Win it in in a Knicks jersey not too long ago now we are going to see Jacob try to compete with mck Mong with Jaylen brown with haime Hawk as the man who injured Julius Randall and who knows maybe he could win Obi won it their father obadiah’s

Topping it’s a legendary street ball dunker Jacob toppins got some serious bouns I mean just go and do yourself a favor and look up some of Jacob toppins best dunks it is is so fun to watch he’s just such a tremendous dunker like his brother like his dad that bounce runs in

The family they are quite the dunking family trait and essentially the New York Knicks now have another one of them because Obie’s obviously been traded to the Pacers Obie and Jacob saw each other last night when the Knicks and the Pacers faced off in a Pacers win and now

That we have Jacob we’re playing him similar minutes to what Obie played which is essentially nothing but Jacob’s coming out of the leag how it makes more sense though I do want to see him get actual NBA burn I think it’s important for him cuz he’s not young he’s not like

Some 19-year-old he’s 23 years old he could be ready he’s obviously nervous and that’s fine against the Mavericks who was the first man he ever played real NBA minutes so we definitely could just see that being a case of nerves but I would like to see Jacob get more time

Off the bench because obviously as we know the Nicks are riddled with injuries now I Isaiah hartenstein is down with a sore achilles he’s dayto day Jericho Sims is out with an illness and then our entire starting front court is missing if you look at Julius Randall he’s going

To get reevaluated in around two weeks from now we’re going to see what happens hopefully he’ll be back after the All-Star game and the dislocated shoulder won’t be anything serious Mitchell Robinson will resume onc Court activities after the All-Star break which is a great sign for the Knicks and

For Mitch as it seemed like he was going to be out for the rest of the year and obviously OG on anobi had some elbow surgery to remove a loose bone fragment in his right elbow that happened on Thursday he’s going to be re-evaluated in three

Weeks so a little bit after the All-Star break but especially OG is known that he’ll be coming back fine Randall most likely will be okay Steph Curry dislocated his shoulder not too long ago like a couple years back and he was fine in three weeks completely fine went back

To playing with normal Steph Curry that’s why he has like the sleeve on and stuff maybe we’ll just see Randall Rock the sleeve just for for some extra security and then he’ll be all good which the Knicks are definitely going to need come playoff time OG the Knicks are

Going to definitely need come playoff time and Mitchell Robinson would be a treat to have back because we thought he was done for the year hopefully though in the meantime we see jaob Topp and get real bench minutes I’m not saying he needs 30 minutes a night he needs like

10 just let him play see what happens he can get real minutes he could show something to the Knicks that we don’t know he could show that he’s valuable he could show that he could be an extra guy off the bench or be involved in some

Sort of trade for something be like a little extra addition to a trade or whatever it is there’s clearly something untapped with Jacob toppen here and the Knicks should go all in to figure out what that is and if we see more we’ll obviously make I think that would be a

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Got to get out of here and go watch some games peace peace have go next

Jacob Toppin continues to ball out for the Knicks and show why he could be a potential NBA Star one day. Chris Gallagher breaks it down.

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