VIDEO DISCUSSION: Porzingis and Grant are officially members of the New York Knicks

New York Knicks has signed its 2015 NBA first-round draft picks, forward Kristaps Porzingis and guard Jerian Grant to contracts. The Knicks re-signed forward Lou Amundson to a contract. In usual fashion, the terms of the contracts were not disclosed.

Porzingis, 7-3, 233 pounds, was the fourth overall selection in the 2015 NBA Draft who had played professionally for Cajasol Seville in Spain over the past three seasons. In 75 career ACB games, the 19-year-old averaged 8.1 points, and also added a 9.9 points-per-game average in Eurocup play. At the 2015 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas earlier this month, Porzingis averaged 10.5 points in four games for New York’s entry.

Grant, 6-4, 198, was the 19th overall selection in the 2015 NBA Draft. Grant averaged 14.6 points and 5.8 assists over four seasons with Notre Dame. In his senior season, the Silver Spring, MD native was named a First Team All-American and was one of five finalists for the John R. Wooden Award as the National Player of the Year by averaging 16.5 points and 5.8 assists in 38 games. At the 2015 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas earlier this month, Grant averaged 11.8 points and 4.8 assists in five games for New York’s entry.

VIDEO DISCUSSION: What should be more important to Derrick Rose, the 2015-16 NBA season or the 2016 Olympics?

With USA Basketball approaching, Team USA Minicamp is the first order of business and Chicago Bull’s Derrick Rose is in decision-making mode.

Rose needs to decide whether to participate or rest and not participate. If Rose doesn’t participate, it would mean he would have to forego participating in the 2016 Olympics.

VIDEO: Conversation about Epiphanny Prince, Tina Charles, and Becky Hammon

Epiphany Prince rejoins the NY Liberty after missing the first 10 games of the season due to a prior commitment with Russia's National Women's Team. In her season debut with the Liberty, Prince scored a total of 12 points and had 2 assists along with 3 rebounds.

Liberty forward Tina Charles scored her 3,000th career point during a recent overtime win against the Washington Mystics. Tina also scored the game-winning shot! Go Tina!!!

Former New York Liberty guard, Becky Hammon scored another milestone. She is a coach of the San Antonio Spurs’ NBA Summer League. Hammon becomes the first woman to coach an NBA Summer League team.

Butler Gets Votes to Win Kia NBA Most Improved Player for 2014-15 Season

Chicago Bulls' Jimmy Butler was named the NBA’s most improved player for the 2014-15 season.

Butler, in his fourth season in the NBA, racked up career highs in scoring, rebounding and assists. Butler also made his first trip to the NBA All-Star Game as a reserve for the East. The Most Improved Player Award was created to recognize an up-and-coming player who has made a dramatic improvement from the previous season or seasons.

Butler is the first Bull to win the award since its inception in 1985-86.

Congratulations to Jimmy Butler; we’re looking forward to seeing more of his brilliance in the 2015-16 NBA season.

New York Liberty's Tina Charles Calls Hammon a Trailblazer

The New York Liberty inducted Becky Hammon into the New York Liberty Ring of Honor on Sunday. Becky Hammon, is an assistant coach with the San Antonio Spurs and is the first woman to coach in the NBA. Hammon is the first woman to coach the winning NBA Summer League team, and she is a former guard for the New York Liberty. The New York Liberty Ring of Honor is a well-deserved honor.

VIDEO: Brooklyn Nets player, Kenyon Martin has decided to call it quits after 15 years in the NBA.

In addition for playing for the New Jersey Nets (now Brooklyn Nets), Kenyon Martin played for the Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers, New York Knicks and Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA, and the Xinjiang Flying Tigers of China. The 6'9" power forward played college basketball for Cincinnati before being drafted with the first overall pick in the 2000 NBA draft by the New Jersey Nets.

Joe Johnson rumored to be headed to Cleveland Cavaliers

The What’s The 411Sports panel is talking about the Brooklyn Nets free agency deals.

The Brooklyn Nets have come to terms with free-agents, Brook Lopez and Thaddeus Young, to keep them in Brooklyn a little longer after their impressive surge towards the end of last season. The Nets also acquire Shane Larkin and Thomas Robinson. Who is leaving the Nets next? At the time of this taping, it is rumored that Joe Johnson could be traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Trouble could be looming, as dark cloud hovers over Cavs

The Cleveland Cavaliers re-signed some of its top free agents including Iman Shumpert, Kevin Love and Lebron James. Curiously, the Cavs have yet to sign Tristan Thompson, and failing to do so won’t bode well with the king moving forward.

VIDEO: Offseason Moves: Could the Miami Heat become a powerhouse in the East?

Although reports linked Dwyane Wade to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Miami Heat star returned to South Beach for one year and $20 million; and Amare Stoudemire joined him for one year, north of one million dollars.

Although reports linked Dwyane Wade to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Miami Heat star returned to South Beach for one year and $20 million; and Amare Stoudemire joined him for one year, north of one million dollars.

Curry tops James Harden and LeBron James and becomes 2nd Warriors season MVP since the late great Wilt Chamberlain

"Be Humble".

Those were the words of Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, who on Monday night was awarded the 2015 NBA MVP award. Curry finished with 100 first-place votes, followed by Houston Rockets own, James Harden with 25 and Lebron James with 5.

It honestly could have gone either way, but being the best player on the best team, posting a regular season stat line of: 23.8 points, 4.3 rebounds and 7.7 assists, could not be ignored, and both James and Harden have better scoring averages of 25.3 and 27.4 respectively.

Curry becomes the second Warriors season MVP since the late great Wilt Chamberlain, who won the award in 1960. And with this award you could just imagine how saddened all of the New York Knicks fans, around the world are feeling, right about now.

Curry has never done anything to us (despite lighting up the garden for a career high 54 points, Feb. 27th, 2013), the city of New York, but he was one pick away from donning the orange and blue. In that 2009 NBA Draft, Curry was selected one slot ahead of the Knicks, going seventh overall to the Warriors while the Knicks had to settle for the likes of Jordan Hill, who suits up for the Los Angeles Lakers. And there's no comparison.

At this rate, Hill is destined to be a NBA journey-man who can help a winning team, while Curry is on pace to one day look up at his jersey in the rafters when it’s all said and done. We should have seen this coming. The word humble is important because, it defined Curry's MVP award acceptance speech in addition to how he's conducted himself on and off the court and it all started with his upbringing.

Curry is the son of Dell Curry, a respected former NBA sniper. Curry followed in his father's footsteps, pursuing a career in basketball. He wasn't heavily recruited coming out of Charlotte Christian high school, rated as a three-star recruit by Rivals, and chose to play his collegiate basketball in-state, at the small college of Davidson.

There, Curry became a star.

He averaged 25.3 points during his 3-year stay, leaving Davidson as the All-time Davidson leader in points with 2,635 and the rest is history and it seems like only yesterday, James was attending Davidson games just to see what Curry would do next.

Since his arrival in Golden State, Curry has performed. He's started from day one, and six years in, Curry is one of the many faces of the NBA. He's a 2-time NBA All-star in counting, with two Olympic Gold Medals and it just seems as though the awards will continue to over-flow Curry's shelves into the immediate future.

Like this one. It's the highest individual award in sports, and upon receiving it, Curry paid homage to his teammates, his family and most importantly, his old man.

Curry gave insight into what it was like being the son of an NBA player, saying that it wasn't easy, but he was proud of what he was able to do in his career and that following in his footsteps meant a lot to him.

In his honor, Curry wears No. 30; the number his dad wore during his career.

The word humble is important here because, with his achievements, Curry hasn't taken anything for granted and unlike pre-collegiate career, people are finally taking notice of, without a doubt the best shooter in the NBA.

He's a spokesperson for degree.

He's got his own shoe with Under Armour and he's the other half of the "Splash Brothers", along with teammate, Klay Thompson.

There's no more denying Curry's greatness and the best is yet to come for the former Wildcat who is expected to lead his team to the NBA Finals this year.

In closing his speech, Curry left the crowd with words that resonate.

"Make sure you live in the moment, and work your butt off every single day. I hope I inspire people all around the world to just be themselves, be humble and be grateful for all the blessings in your life, and I'm truly honored to be your MVP this year, thank you very much."