Team president Steve Mills said that the New York Knicks were focused on developing their young players and internal team culture to make themselves more attractive to free agents.

"Our focus is on the guys that we have right now, developing them, and also developing the environment, or the culture, that exists around our team," Mills said.

Mills added that he wants to find a core group of players to build around within the current roster. 

"If we don’t make this a place the guys internally feel something good is happening and believe in what we’re doing, that’s not going to be attractive to people who are on the outside...the plan is that we develop an environment that free agents should want to be here. But we also hope that some of the guys on our roster force us to pay them. Our goal is to develop these guys and make them as good as they possibly can be so that we have some hard decisions to make and that we feel like there are more people than just the three rookies we can grow around".