KNICKS TO LOOK AT WILCOX
CHRIS WILCOX
At Garden today.
June 15, 2002 -- The Knicks wined and dined Maryland's Chris Wilcox last night, bringing him to The Palm restaurant before his big show today at the Garden.
Don Chaney, Knicks GM Scott Layden and assistant GM Jeff Nix entertained the rugged 19-year-old power forward. Wilcox, who could still be available when the Knicks make the seventh pick, will hold today his second of three workouts, open only to lottery teams. Wilcox will face Fresno State's Melvin Ely and DeAngelo Collins.
Rock Newman, the former controversial boxing promoter who now represents Wilcox, rates him as the best power forward coming out of the draft, better than Kansas' Drew Gooden, whom Newman said he invited to work out against Wilcox last Wednesday in Chicago. Gooden's handlers, though, shied away.
But as anyone whose followed boxing knows, Newman can get carried away with the hype. Even Wilcox is not given to overstatement, even though he outplayed Gooden in the Final Four.
"I just know all of the teams think I'm a lottery pick," Wilcox said.
Wilcox' strained hamstring prevented him from holding private workouts last month, so Newman chose to hold three workouts in each part of the country for lottery teams. Wilcox held his first workout at the Bulls' practice facility Wednesday, which Layden and Nix attended. After today's Garden trial, he will work out once more in Phoenix Thursday and the Knicks will be present again.
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