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1989-90 New York Knicks Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 45-37, Finished 3rd in NBA Atlantic Division

Coach: Stu Jackson (45-37)

Executive: Al Bianchi

PTS/G: 108.3 (12th of 27) Opp PTS/G: 106.9 (15th of 27)

SRS: 0.78 (13th of 27) Pace: 98.2 (12th of 27)

Off Rtg: 109.4 (13th of 27) Def Rtg: 108.0 (13th of 27) Net Rtg: +1.4 (11th of 27)

Expected W-L: 45-37 (11th of 27)

Preseason Odds: Championship +800

Arena: Madison Square Garden (IV) Attendance: 730,432 (5th of 27)

NBA 1990 Playoffs:
Won NBA Eastern Conference First Round (3-2) versus Boston Celtics (Series Stats)
Lost NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals (1-4) versus Detroit Pistons (Series Stats)

Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date		Exp	College
54	Greg Butler	C	6-11	240	March 11, 1966	us	1	Stanford
1	Maurice Cheeks	PG	6-1	180	September 8, 1956	us	11	West Texas A&M University
33	Patrick Ewing	C	7-0	240	August 5, 1962	jm	4	Georgetown
40	Stuart Gray	C	7-0	235	May 27, 1963	pa	5	UCLA
13	Mark Jackson	PG	6-1	180	April 1, 1965	us	2	St. John's
8	Pete Myers	SG	6-6	180	September 15, 1963	us	3	Little Rock
4	Johnny Newman	SF	6-7	190	November 28, 1963	us	3	Richmond
34	Charles Oakley	PF	6-8	225	December 18, 1963	us	4	Virginia Union University
23	Brian Quinnett	SG	6-8	235	May 30, 1966	us	R	Washington State
11	Rod Strickland	PG	6-3	175	July 11, 1966	us	1	DePaul
6	Trent Tucker	SG	6-5	193	December 20, 1959	us	7	Minnesota
55	Kiki Vandeweghe	SF	6-8	220	August 1, 1958	de	9	UCLA
7	Kenny Walker	PF	6-8	210	August 18, 1964	us	3	Kentucky
45	Eddie Lee Wilkins	C	6-10	220	May 7, 1962	us	3	Gardner-Webb University
21	Gerald Wilkins	SG	6-6	185	September 11, 1963	us	4	Chattanooga

Assistant Coaches and Staff

Team and Opponent Stats

Ranks are per game (except for MP, which are total) and sorted descending (except for TOV and PF); opponents ranked are flipped; year/year calculations are also per game

Team Misc

Per Game

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Patrick Ewing	27	82	82	38.6	11.2	20.4	.551	0.0	0.0	.250	11.2	20.4	.552	.551	6.1	7.9	.775	2.9	8.0	10.9	2.2	1.0	4.0	3.4	4.0	28.6
2	Charles Oakley	26	61	61	36.0	5.5	10.5	.524	0.0	0.0	.000	5.5	10.5	.527	.524	3.6	4.7	.761	4.2	7.7	11.9	2.4	1.0	0.3	2.7	3.6	14.6
3	Gerald Wilkins	26	82	80	31.8	5.8	12.6	.457	0.5	1.5	.312	5.3	11.1	.477	.476	2.5	3.2	.803	1.6	2.9	4.5	4.0	1.2	0.3	2.4	2.3	14.5
4	Mark Jackson	24	82	69	29.6	4.0	9.1	.437	0.4	1.6	.267	3.6	7.5	.472	.460	1.5	2.0	.727	1.3	2.6	3.9	7.4	1.3	0.0	2.6	1.5	9.9
5	Johnny Newman	26	80	69	28.5	4.7	9.8	.476	0.6	1.8	.317	4.1	8.1	.511	.504	3.0	3.7	.799	0.8	1.6	2.4	2.3	1.2	0.3	1.8	3.2	12.9
6	Kiki Vandeweghe	31	22	13	25.6	4.6	10.5	.442	0.5	0.9	.526	4.2	9.6	.434	.463	2.0	2.2	.917	0.7	1.7	2.4	1.9	0.7	0.1	1.2	1.3	11.7
7	Maurice Cheeks	33	31	13	24.3	3.0	5.1	.579	0.1	0.2	.429	2.9	4.9	.586	.588	1.8	2.1	.877	0.4	2.0	2.4	4.9	1.4	0.2	1.2	1.0	7.9
8	Kenny Walker	25	68	21	23.5	3.0	5.6	.531	0.0	0.1	.400	3.0	5.6	.533	.534	1.8	2.5	.723	1.9	3.1	5.0	0.7	0.5	0.8	0.9	2.6	7.9
9	Trent Tucker	30	81	2	21.3	3.1	7.5	.417	1.2	3.0	.388	2.0	4.5	.438	.496	0.8	1.1	.767	0.7	1.4	2.1	2.1	0.9	0.1	0.9	2.0	8.2
10	Rod Strickland	23	51	0	20.0	3.3	7.6	.440	0.1	0.4	.286	3.2	7.2	.449	.448	1.6	2.5	.638	0.8	1.6	2.5	4.3	1.4	0.2	1.7	1.4	8.4
11	Eddie Lee Wilkins	27	79	0	12.3	1.8	3.9	.455	0.0	0.0	.000	1.8	3.9	.458	.455	1.1	1.9	.605	1.4	1.9	3.4	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.9	1.9	4.7
12	Pete Myers	26	24	0	8.7	0.6	1.9	.333	0.0	0.0	.000	0.6	1.8	.341	.333	0.7	1.3	.516	0.4	0.8	1.2	1.5	0.6	0.1	0.8	1.6	1.9
13	Brian Quinnett	23	31	0	6.2	0.6	1.9	.328	0.0	0.1	.000	0.6	1.8	.339	.328	0.1	0.1	.667	0.3	0.6	0.9	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.9	1.3
14	Stuart Gray	26	19	0	4.9	0.2	0.9	.235	0.0	0.2	.000	0.2	0.7	.286	.235	0.4	0.4	.875	0.1	0.6	0.7	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.3	1.4	0.8
15	Greg Butler	23	13	0	2.5	0.2	0.9	.250	0.0	0.0		0.2	0.9	.250	.250	0.0	0.2	.000	0.2	0.5	0.7	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.6	0.5

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Patrick Ewing	27	10	10	39.5	11.4	21.9	.521	0.1	0.2	.500	11.3	21.7	.521	.523	6.5	7.9	.823	2.1	8.4	10.5	3.1	1.3	2.0	2.7	4.1	29.4
2	Maurice Cheeks	33	10	10	38.8	5.0	10.4	.481	0.0	0.4	.000	5.0	10.0	.500	.481	2.8	3.1	.903	1.2	2.7	3.9	8.5	1.7	0.2	1.9	2.1	12.8
3	Charles Oakley	26	10	8	33.6	4.3	8.4	.512	0.1	0.1	1.000	4.2	8.3	.506	.518	3.4	5.2	.654	3.9	7.1	11.0	2.7	1.1	0.2	2.2	3.3	12.1
4	Gerald Wilkins	26	10	10	31.9	6.3	13.7	.460	0.2	0.8	.250	6.1	12.9	.473	.467	1.8	2.2	.818	1.4	2.2	3.6	5.2	1.4	0.1	1.8	2.3	14.6
5	Kiki Vandeweghe	31	10	10	23.6	3.1	7.4	.419	0.6	1.3	.462	2.5	6.1	.410	.459	0.8	1.0	.800	0.7	0.5	1.2	1.4	0.5	0.2	0.7	1.4	7.6
6	Johnny Newman	26	10	0	23.1	3.8	8.5	.447	0.4	1.0	.400	3.4	7.5	.453	.471	3.7	4.9	.755	1.1	1.0	2.1	1.0	0.9	0.3	1.7	4.1	11.7
7	Trent Tucker	30	10	0	17.8	2.2	5.5	.400	1.0	2.7	.370	1.2	2.8	.429	.491	0.6	0.6	1.000	0.5	0.9	1.4	2.0	1.0	0.0	0.6	1.9	6.0
8	Kenny Walker	25	10	2	15.4	1.6	2.9	.552	0.0	0.1	.000	1.6	2.8	.571	.552	0.9	1.4	.643	0.7	1.8	2.5	0.6	0.0	0.4	0.1	2.2	4.1
9	Mark Jackson	24	9	0	9.0	1.4	3.4	.419	0.0	0.2	.000	1.4	3.2	.448	.419	0.9	1.2	.727	0.1	0.4	0.6	2.3	0.2	0.0	0.8	0.6	3.8
10	Eddie Lee Wilkins	27	7	0	7.7	1.3	2.6	.500	0.0	0.0		1.3	2.6	.500	.500	0.9	1.6	.545	0.7	0.9	1.6	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.3	1.0	3.4
11	Brian Quinnett	23	3	0	5.3	0.7	1.3	.500	0.3	0.3	1.000	0.3	1.0	.333	.625	0.0	0.0		1.7	1.0	2.7	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.7	1.7
12	Stuart Gray	26	4	0	3.0	0.5	1.3	.400	0.0	0.0		0.5	1.3	.400	.400	0.0	0.0		0.8	1.3	2.0	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.8	0.8	1.0

Totals

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Patrick Ewing	27	82	82	3165	922	1673	.551	1	4	.250	921	1669	.552	.551	502	648	.775	235	658	893	182	78	327	278	325	2347
2	Gerald Wilkins	26	82	80	2609	472	1032	.457	39	125	.312	433	907	.477	.476	208	259	.803	133	238	371	330	95	21	194	188	1191
3	Mark Jackson	24	82	69	2428	327	749	.437	35	131	.267	292	618	.472	.460	120	165	.727	106	212	318	604	109	4	211	121	809
4	Johnny Newman	26	80	69	2277	374	786	.476	45	142	.317	329	644	.511	.504	239	299	.799	60	131	191	180	95	22	143	254	1032
5	Charles Oakley	26	61	61	2196	336	641	.524	0	3	.000	336	638	.527	.524	217	285	.761	258	469	727	146	64	16	165	220	889
6	Trent Tucker	30	81	2	1725	253	606	.417	95	245	.388	158	361	.438	.496	66	86	.767	57	117	174	173	74	8	73	159	667
7	Kenny Walker	25	68	21	1595	204	384	.531	2	5	.400	202	379	.533	.534	125	173	.723	131	212	343	49	33	52	60	178	535
8	Rod Strickland	23	51	0	1019	170	386	.440	6	21	.286	164	365	.449	.448	83	130	.638	43	83	126	219	70	8	85	71	429
9	Eddie Lee Wilkins	27	79	0	972	141	310	.455	0	2	.000	141	308	.458	.455	89	147	.605	114	151	265	16	18	18	73	152	371
10	Maurice Cheeks	33	31	13	753	92	159	.579	3	7	.429	89	152	.586	.588	57	65	.877	11	62	73	151	42	5	36	32	244
11	Kiki Vandeweghe	31	22	13	563	102	231	.442	10	19	.526	92	212	.434	.463	44	48	.917	15	38	53	41	15	3	26	28	258
12	Pete Myers	26	24	0	208	15	45	.333	0	1	.000	15	44	.341	.333	16	31	.516	10	18	28	35	15	2	18	39	46
13	Brian Quinnett	23	31	0	193	19	58	.328	0	2	.000	19	56	.339	.328	2	3	.667	9	19	28	11	3	4	4	27	40
14	Stuart Gray	26	19	0	94	4	17	.235	0	3	.000	4	14	.286	.235	7	8	.875	2	12	14	2	3	2	5	26	15
15	Greg Butler	23	13	0	33	3	12	.250	0	0		3	12	.250	.250	0	2	.000	3	6	9	1	0	0	3	8	6
			82		19830	3434	7089	.484	236	710	.332	3198	6379	.501	.501	1775	2349	.756	1187	2426	3613	2140	714	492	1412	1828	8879

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Patrick Ewing	27	10	10	395	114	219	.521	1	2	.500	113	217	.521	.523	65	79	.823	21	84	105	31	13	20	27	41	294
2	Maurice Cheeks	33	10	10	388	50	104	.481	0	4	.000	50	100	.500	.481	28	31	.903	12	27	39	85	17	2	19	21	128
3	Charles Oakley	26	10	8	336	43	84	.512	1	1	1.000	42	83	.506	.518	34	52	.654	39	71	110	27	11	2	22	33	121
4	Gerald Wilkins	26	10	10	319	63	137	.460	2	8	.250	61	129	.473	.467	18	22	.818	14	22	36	52	14	1	18	23	146
5	Kiki Vandeweghe	31	10	10	236	31	74	.419	6	13	.462	25	61	.410	.459	8	10	.800	7	5	12	14	5	2	7	14	76
6	Johnny Newman	26	10	0	231	38	85	.447	4	10	.400	34	75	.453	.471	37	49	.755	11	10	21	10	9	3	17	41	117
7	Trent Tucker	30	10	0	178	22	55	.400	10	27	.370	12	28	.429	.491	6	6	1.000	5	9	14	20	10	0	6	19	60
8	Kenny Walker	25	10	2	154	16	29	.552	0	1	.000	16	28	.571	.552	9	14	.643	7	18	25	6	0	4	1	22	41
9	Mark Jackson	24	9	0	81	13	31	.419	0	2	.000	13	29	.448	.419	8	11	.727	1	4	5	21	2	0	7	5	34
10	Eddie Lee Wilkins	27	7	0	54	9	18	.500	0	0		9	18	.500	.500	6	11	.545	5	6	11	0	2	0	2	7	24
11	Brian Quinnett	23	3	0	16	2	4	.500	1	1	1.000	1	3	.333	.625	0	0		5	3	8	2	0	0	1	2	5
12	Stuart Gray	26	4	0	12	2	5	.400	0	0		2	5	.400	.400	0	0		3	5	8	0	1	0	3	3	4

Advanced

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Patrick Ewing	27	82	3165	25.8	.599	.002	.387	8.5	22.4	15.7	10.0	1.2	5.9	12.4	29.4		8.3	5.3	13.5	.205		3.7	1.8	5.5	6.0
2	Gerald Wilkins	26	82	2609	14.3	.520	.121	.251	5.8	9.8	7.9	18.5	1.8	0.5	14.5	21.4		2.3	2.1	4.4	.082		0.3	-0.6	-0.3	1.1
3	Mark Jackson	24	82	2428	14.3	.492	.175	.220	5.0	9.4	7.3	34.0	2.2	0.1	20.4	17.7		1.6	2.1	3.7	.074		0.9	-0.5	0.4	1.5
4	Johnny Newman	26	80	2277	12.7	.562	.181	.380	3.0	6.2	4.7	11.3	2.0	0.6	13.5	19.4		2.8	1.7	4.5	.095		-1.1	0.0	-1.1	0.5
5	Charles Oakley	26	61	2196	15.9	.580	.005	.445	13.4	23.0	18.4	9.3	1.4	0.4	17.7	17.6		3.2	2.8	6.0	.131		0.3	-0.6	-0.3	0.9
6	Trent Tucker	30	81	1725	12.0	.518	.404	.142	3.8	7.3	5.6	13.9	2.1	0.3	10.2	17.3		1.9	1.4	3.3	.091		-0.1	0.1	0.0	0.9
7	Kenny Walker	25	68	1595	12.7	.581	.013	.451	9.4	14.3	11.9	4.2	1.0	1.9	11.5	13.6		2.5	1.5	4.0	.121		-0.9	-0.3	-1.2	0.3
8	Rod Strickland	23	51	1019	15.9	.484	.054	.337	4.8	8.8	6.9	30.7	3.4	0.5	16.1	21.6		0.6	1.2	1.8	.083		0.3	0.8	1.2	0.8
9	Eddie Lee Wilkins	27	79	972	9.9	.495	.006	.474	13.4	16.8	15.1	2.3	0.9	1.1	16.3	19.2		-0.1	0.9	0.8	.040		-4.3	-2.3	-6.6	-1.1
10	Maurice Cheeks	33	31	753	17.1	.650	.044	.409	1.7	8.9	5.4	27.0	2.7	0.4	16.1	12.4		1.9	0.8	2.7	.172		1.8	1.5	3.2	1.0
11	Kiki Vandeweghe	31	22	563	12.5	.512	.082	.208	3.0	7.3	5.2	10.6	1.3	0.3	9.3	20.5		0.5	0.3	0.8	.072		-0.8	-1.7	-2.5	-0.1
12	Pete Myers	26	24	208	7.1	.392	.022	.689	5.5	9.3	7.5	21.2	3.5	0.6	23.5	15.3		-0.3	0.3	0.0	-0.001		-5.3	2.5	-2.7	0.0
13	Brian Quinnett	23	31	193	3.9	.337	.034	.052	5.3	10.6	8.1	7.4	0.8	1.2	6.3	13.6		-0.2	0.1	-0.1	-0.015		-5.7	-1.3	-7.0	-0.2
14	Stuart Gray	26	19	94	-0.2	.365	.176	.471	2.4	13.8	8.3	2.6	1.6	1.2	19.6	11.3		-0.1	0.1	-0.1	-0.026		-10.1	0.0	-10.1	-0.2
15	Greg Butler	23	13	33	-4.9	.233	.000	.167	10.4	19.6	15.1	3.9	0.0	0.0	18.9	20.0		-0.2	0.0	-0.1	-0.206		-13.6	-4.7	-18.3	-0.1

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Patrick Ewing	27	10	395	25.4	.579	.009	.361	6.0	26.0	15.7	14.2	1.7	3.2	9.6	30.9		1.0	0.3	1.3	.155		4.3	0.8	5.2	0.7
2	Maurice Cheeks	33	10	388	16.2	.544	.038	.298	3.5	8.5	5.9	30.8	2.2	0.3	13.9	15.3		0.7	0.0	0.7	.091		1.4	-0.1	1.4	0.3
3	Charles Oakley	26	10	336	15.9	.566	.012	.619	13.2	25.8	19.3	11.3	1.7	0.4	17.1	16.7		0.4	0.2	0.6	.086		1.0	-0.5	0.5	0.2
4	Gerald Wilkins	26	10	319	15.7	.498	.058	.161	5.0	8.4	6.6	25.4	2.2	0.2	10.9	22.5		0.3	0.0	0.3	.043		1.2	0.0	1.2	0.3
5	Kiki Vandeweghe	31	10	236	8.4	.485	.176	.135	3.4	2.6	3.0	8.4	1.1	0.5	8.2	15.7		0.0	-0.1	0.0	-0.007		-1.4	-2.3	-3.6	-0.1
6	Johnny Newman	26	10	231	11.7	.549	.118	.576	5.4	5.3	5.4	6.4	2.0	0.8	13.8	23.3		0.1	0.0	0.1	.030		-3.3	-1.3	-4.6	-0.2
7	Trent Tucker	30	10	178	11.9	.520	.491	.109	3.2	6.2	4.6	15.7	2.8	0.0	9.4	15.6		0.2	0.0	0.2	.056		-0.3	0.2	-0.1	0.1
8	Kenny Walker	25	10	154	9.8	.583	.034	.483	5.2	14.3	9.6	5.3	0.0	1.6	2.8	10.2		0.3	0.0	0.2	.075		-2.0	-0.7	-2.7	0.0
9	Mark Jackson	24	9	81	13.4	.474	.065	.355	1.4	6.0	3.6	38.2	1.2	0.0	16.3	23.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.009		0.7	-2.7	-2.0	0.0
10	Eddie Lee Wilkins	27	7	54	12.8	.525	.000	.611	10.5	13.6	12.0	0.0	1.9	0.0	8.1	20.0		0.0	0.0	0.1	.047		-0.8	-1.7	-2.5	0.0
11	Brian Quinnett	23	3	16	20.8	.625	.250	.000	35.5	22.9	29.4	17.5	0.0	0.0	20.0	13.6		0.1	0.0	0.1	.177		7.2	-1.3	5.8	0.0
12	Stuart Gray	26	4	12	6.8	.400	.000	.000	28.4	50.9	39.3	0.0	4.2	0.0	37.5	29.0		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.211		-9.8	-2.4	-12.2	0.0

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