Kyle O’Quinn turned down a deal to return to the Knicks because he wanted “to be a part of something bigger than next year’s draft.”
After six losing seasons in Orlando and New York, O’Quinn told the Indiana media, “I just felt like at this point, I owed it to myself.”
Kyle O'Quinn joins the #Pacers bench mob. Passed on an offer to return to hometown #Knicks "I wanted to play for something more than next year's draft." @WISH_TV pic.twitter.com/usqbometm8
— Charlie Clifford (@char_cliff) July 9, 2018
In a post on Instagram, O’Quinn made it clear that his comments were not meant to be a dig at the Knicks.
“Don’t take that the wrong way y’all it’s all love,” O’Quinn wrote.
https://twitter.com/KnickFilmSchool/status/1016395377090682880
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