The Knicks’ summer experiment with a pile of former Jazz players is already thinning out.
According to ESPN’s Shams Charania, New York is cutting Drew Eubanks, Ochai Agbaji and Tony Bradley as the season sits just days away. John Konchar’s name did not come up in the report, which suggests he remains in the mix.
Eubanks appears to be the clearest case. The source says a pectoral tear is likely keeping him from making the roster, and there’s at least a hint that New York could circle back once he gets a clean bill of health.
The whole setup has been a little funny from the Utah angle. The Knicks went bargain hunting this summer while trying to repeat as NBA Champions, and a chunk of that search led them straight to Jazz alumni.
They already had Jordan Clarkson, then added Konchar after Utah traded him, and later brought in Eubanks, Agbaji and Bradley too. At one point, the group of former Jazz players in camp was almost absurdly large.
Now the list is shrinking fast.
For Jazz fans, there’s some trivia tucked into all of this. Eubanks was a low-key Utah add in 2023 before getting moved midseason, a trade path that eventually brought PJ Tucker into the picture and, later, to the Knicks.
Agbaji arrived in the Donovan Mitchell deal in 2022 and spent a year and a half in Utah before the Jazz moved on. Bradley is the most recognizable of the bunch from a Jazz perspective, having been around during the Rudy Gobert/Donovan Mitchell peak years, even if he was never a central reason those teams won as much as they did.
None of the three left a huge mark in Utah, and none of them badly burned the fanbase either. They’re more likely to show up as Jazz trivia answers than as lasting memories, but they’ve now become part of an oddly specific Knicks footnote just before the season begins.
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