New York Knicks

Every NBA player the encyclopedia attributes to the New York Knicksfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room New York Knicks has passed down, steadiest first. The C/PF room is their most stable — 4 holders across 50 years, a new one every 12.5 on average.

1. C/PF4 holders · 3 handoffs · 1950–1999 · one every 12.5y
   Connie Simmons1950–1954→Jim Barnes1965–1966→John Gianelli1973–1977→Herb Williams1993–1999
2. PF/SF4 holders · 3 handoffs · 1956–2001 · one every 11.5y
   Ken Sears1956–1963→Dave DeBusschere1969–1974→Louis Orr1983–1988→Larry Johnson1997–2001
3. SG/PG3 holders · 2 handoffs · 1948–1980 · one every 11y
   Carl Braun1948–1961→Earl Monroe1972–1980→Jim Cleamons1978–1980
4. SG/SF4 holders · 3 handoffs · 1950–1992 · one every 10.8y
   Ernie Vandeweghe1950–1956→Mike Riordan1969–1972→Ernie Grunfeld1983–1986→Gerald Wilkins1986–1992
5. SF/SG2 holders · 1 handoff · 1963–1983 · one every 10.5y
   Tom Gola1963–1966→Sly Williams1980–1983
6. PG/SG5 holders · 4 handoffs · 1949–1986 · one every 7.6y
   Ray Lumpp1949–1953→Gene Shue1955–1963→Ron Sobieszczyk1957–1960→Micheal Ray Richardson1979–1982→Darrell Walker1984–1986

+8 more rooms with a shorter average hold.

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1948–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.