Kevin Knox II signs with the G League's Windy City Bulls

You remember Kevin Knox II, right? The star scorer on the 2017-18 Kentucky team, whom the New York Knicks drafted with the 9th overall pick in the NBA draft, notably ahead of his teammate and future All-everything Shai Gilgeous-Alexander? He is also fond of using “II” as a generational suffix instead of “Jr.” In some sort of galactic time warp, this will be Knox’s 8th year playing professional basketball, and he just turned 26 years old in August. He now has a new home, as he signed with the Windy City Bulls, Chicago’s G League affiliate.

New team, same Kevin Knox! 🪣

The former NBA lottery pick is returning to the G for his third season – this time with the @windycitybulls. pic.twitter.com/GAmJY9sFx6

— NBA G League (@nbagleague) November 1, 2025

Kevin Knox II has bounced around all over the NBA. The Knicks traded him to Atlanta after three seasons in New York. He then spent time with both the Detroit Pistons and Portland Trail Blazers during the 2022-23 season before returning to Detroit the next year. He spent most of last season with the Golden State Warriors, but played sparingly.

Knox’s best season was his rookie year, when he averaged over 12 points per game. He is averaging 7.3 points per game throughout his tenure in the NBA, but he will need a good showing with Windy City to get a call back up to the big leagues.

If nothing else, Kevin Knox news makes for a good excuse to re-watch highlights from the 2018 West Virginia game, when he nearly single-handedly brought Kentucky back from a 15-point halftime deficit to pull out an improbable win in Morgantown. Yours truly was in attendance for that game and took a dollhouse couch to every bar in town afterward, letting everyone within earshot know we were gonna burn that thing to the ground.

Good times.