The New York Knicks have shown promise during the first few months of the 2024-25 season. New York defeated the Atlanta Hawks on Monday to improve to 28-18.
On Tuesday, the Knicks make the short trip to Brooklyn for a cross-city matchup with the Nets. NBA All-Star Jalen Brunson continues to shine this season, averaging 26.2 points and 7.4 assists per game. match.
Nevertheless, New York City native and self-proclaimed Knicks fan Michael Rapaport believes that adding someone of some size could bolster the team’s roster.
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Michael Rapaport attends the Portland Trail Blazers vs New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden on March 1, 2016 in New York City. (James Devaney/GC Images)
Rapaport declared Barron Trump, 18, the “star” of Monday’s presidential inauguration before urging the Knicks to consider signing the teenager to a 10-day contract.
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“What a day, the 2025 inauguration… and I have to say the star of the show was my guy ‘big body Barron Trump,'” Rapaport said in a video posted on his social media platform.
“I thought while the ‘big body’ was up there, standing in the back and booming… the Knicks should sign him for a 10-day… look what he’s got. Mitch Robison isn’t coming back right now. You never know. You needs another big man in the post.He looks like he has a soft touch.
Barron Trump attends the inaugural parade at Capital One Arena in Washington, DC on January 20, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
Listed at 7-foot, 240 pounds, Robinson has yet to appear in a game this season due to an ankle injury. However, the Knicks hope the center will be able to make his debut sometime in February.
The opening tip between the New York Knicks and the Indiana Pacers at Madison Square Garden in New York on October 25, 2024. (Brad Penner-Imagn Photos)
Barron is President Trump’s youngest son. When he was 10 years old, Barron Trump became the first son to live in the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1961.
Barron, who turned 11 in March 2017, also lived in Trump Tower in New York and attended Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School on the Upper West Side. Barron was 13 years old when his family moved permanently to Mar-a-Lago in 2019. That year, Trump said he would have “difficulty” allowing his son to play football.
“I just don’t like the reports that I see coming out that have to do with football — I mean, it’s a dangerous sport and I think it’s really tough,” Trump said at the time. “I thought the equipment would get better, and it has. The helmets have gotten a lot better, but that hasn’t solved the problem.”
Barron Trump was 14 years old when his father left office in January 2021.
Barron Trump graduated from Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach in May, and matriculated at New York University in the fall of 2024. In November, he also voted for the first time, submit a ballot for his father in Florida.
The Knicks won 50 games in the 2023–24 regular season before being eliminated by the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.
