Just when you thought signing forward Luka Samanic to a two-way contract was a maneuver Knicks president Leon Rose aced before the season began, it’s turning out rotten like everything else in Big Apple basketball.
Because of a sore left heel, the 6-10 Samanic, the Spurs’ 2019 first-round pick, has played in just one game in nearly two months.
The 22-year-old Croatian has been out for five and a half weeks, last playing on Jan. 7 when he put up 26 points.
The Westchester Knicks said the timetable for his return still remains “day to day.”
Samanic, cut by the Spurs late in training camp, won G League Player of the Week on Dec. 7. But the scintillating inside-outside threat has played in just eight of Westchester’s 27 games (which includes the “Showcase” and regular-season games)
He’s averaging 27.6 points on 39 percent shooting from 3 and 54 percent overall. When the Knicks needed live bodies and were allowed to sign…