From RealGM...
Knicks guard/forward Bill Walker played up-and-down in Las Vegas this week as he looks to get used to playing at a significantly lower weight.
New York coach Mike D’Antoni asked Walker to slim down his solid frame and there have been reports that he’s lost as many as 27 pounds since the season ended.
“I was just looking to get used to playing without all that weight,” Walker said when RealGM asked him what he was looking to show at the summer league. “It’s a major adjustment. The more I play, I’ll get used to it.”
Walker, who estimated that he’s hovering around 200 pounds, added that he doesn’t feel having NBA experience really helps in the summer league.
“I don’t know that it helps,” he said. “This is kind of like pick-up, you don’t have a lot of time to gel with guys and stuff like that.”
Walker has split time between New York and Boston in his two seasons.
From an ESPN article about Team USA...
Krzyzewski went on to say that Lamar Odom could emerge as the backup center, something that would happen if Brook Lopez fails to make the 12-man roster. Lopez recently lost 20 pounds from a bout with mononucleosis, and he was told to work on his conditioning before the team reports to New York on Aug. 9 for the start of training camp.
"At this point we don't know how many bigs we'll end up with. Is it one? Is it two? We don't know. We'll have to wait and see. But we do want to see how Brook Lopez looks after two weeks of getting himself in shape. He's struggled, he's disappointed in his performance, but he wants this opportunity. And when someone has that kind of an attitude you're going to give them a little bit of rope."