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Knicks’ Makeover Continues

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From Associated Press

Isiah Thomas made yet another move Sunday in his transformation of the New York Knicks, trading Keith Van Horn to the Milwaukee Bucks and acquiring Tim Thomas in a three-way deal that also involved the Atlanta Hawks.

New York also got center Nazr Mohammed from Atlanta, while the Hawks acquired Michael Doleac from the Knicks and Joel Przybilla from Milwaukee. New York also sent a 2005 second-round draft choice to Atlanta.

It’s the third trade made by Thomas, who has also changed coaches, since taking over as team president in late December. Only seven players who were with the Knicks then remain on their roster.

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This latest deal gives New York a new starting small forward in Thomas, and a new backup center in Mohammed. Both could be in uniform Tuesday night when the Knicks play the Detroit Pistons.

Van Horn was averaging 16.4 points, third on the team behind Stephon Marbury and Allan Houston. He was acquired last summer in a multi-team deal that sent Latrell Sprewell to Minnesota.

The Bucks will become the fourth team Van Horn has played for since being the No. 2 overall pick of the 1997 draft. He spent five seasons in New Jersey and one in Philadelphia.

Thomas was averaging 14.1 points and 4.9 rebounds for Milwaukee, where the seventh-year forward had spent the last four seasons. This is the second time Van Horn and Thomas have been traded for each other, the previous deal coming on draft night in 1997.

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Former Laker coach Bill Sharman, enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1976, is one of 16 finalists for this year’s class. The new members will be named April 5 at the NCAA men’s Final Four in San Antonio. The induction in Springfield, Mass., is in September.

Among the other finalists are Clyde Drexler, who won an NBA title as a player, women’s college career leading scorer Lynette Woodard, the first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters, and the late Maurice Stokes, NBA rookie of the year in 1956.

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