Jordan Clarkson was attending a Carlos Alcaraz match at Wimbledon when his agent, Rich Paul, called with an important question.
“Where you wanna go?” Paul asked.
“I said, ‘I wanna come to New York,’” Clarkson recalled Saturday night.
Paul then reached out to the Knicks to relay Clarkson’s interest.
“It all happened in two minutes,” Clarkson said. “Then I was a Knick.”
Clarkson, 33, revealed this exchange Saturday night during a live taping of “The Roommates” podcast hosted by his new teammates, Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart.
The interview, which took place in front of hundreds of rain-soaked Knicks fans at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park, represented Clarkson’s first public comments since joining the Knicks in July on a minimum contract . 3
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