“Age is just a number,” Camby said.
It’s a number everyone will be talking about – and joking about – all season long. The Knicks will have the oldest roster in the NBA, with an average age of 30.8 years.
Too old? For what? Winning a championship? The Dallas Mavericks did it in 2010-11 with an average age of 31.3 years.
Camby was also quick to point out that his first go-around in New York also involved an older team. Let the comparisons begin.
“I take it back to that team we had in ’99 that went to the Finals,” he told MSG Network’s Tina Cervasio. “We had a lot of age on that team also with Patrick [Ewing], and LJ and Herb [Williams] and Chris Dudley and all those guys. That team seemed to compete pretty good, also.”
That 1998-99 team had an average age of 29.9 years.
The actual age of that team – based on Jeff Van Gundy’s main rotation players, not the entire roster -- was 29.2 years. The starting five was the exact same.
The actual age of Mike Woodson’s anticipated rotation is 29.7 years. The starting five? 28.5 years.