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The Knicks, the NBA's most interesting team last year, entered the offseason looking to improve in two aspects that are shooting and playmaking. While the perhaps unrealistic solution, a trade for Blazers guard-turned-hip-hop-artist Damian Lillard, never came to pass, the Knicks made two big splashes in free agency.

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