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Miles McBride is having himself quite a start to the 2024-25 NBA season for the New York Knicks.
Knicks’ Miles McBride is off to a wildly efficient start to the year
McBride is averaging a solid 14.7 points per game through the Knicks’ first three contests thus far. But it’s how he’s getting his points that is eye-popping. The West Virginia product is shooting 65.4 percent from the field and 61.5 percent from three-point range. There are a couple of other backcourt bench players in the league like Buddy Hield (Golden State Warriors), Payton Pritchard (Boston Celtics), and Ochai Agbaji (Toronto Raptors) who are scoring at video game levels.
The Knicks’ Sixth Man is doing so at a greater rate than them all. James L. Edwards III of the New York Times presented a mind-boggling nugget about McBride’s efficacy from the floor that not only jumps out, but also forecasts him to potentially be the first player since J.R. Smith in 2013 to come away with the Sixth Man of the Year award come season’s end:
“This season (again, small sample size), McBride is the only player in the entire NBA to take at least five pull-up jumpers and not miss. He can score in various ways off the dribble, and when you look at the history of sixth-man winners, his archetype is the common thread among the vast majority of them,” Edwards III wrote.
“From the front office down to the coaching staff and my teammates, there has been a lot of belief in me,” McBride said. “It gives me a lot of confidence to go out there and do what I do.”
