"I never played for him, but I knew that he was a hard-nosed type of coach, and I felt like he could be a coach to bring the best out of me, which he is doing. "I felt like I was starting at zero, but I knew what type of coach he was," Bullock said of Thibodeau. In the final 17 games, his numbers jumped to 36.4 minutes and 14.2 points per game, and he shot 44.2% from three-point range. He is averaging 10.9 points and shooting 41% from beyond the arc. But when examinations revealed the need for spinal surgery, the Knicks reworked his contract to a two-year, $8.1 million deal, with just a small guarantee on this year’s $4.2 million salary. After a vagabond start to his career with stops with the Clippers, Suns, Pistons and Lakers, as well as brief turns in the developmental league, Bullock agreed to a two-year, $21 million deal with the Knicks in the summer of 2019.
Once he arrived, he found a family in New York, too. So it’s kind of like I still have my sisters here living through my twins."
The energy, losing my sister, is now living within my twins. "Obviously, with me losing my two sisters and God blessing me back with two twins, that’s such a blessing for me. My girlfriend, my mom, my family members and everyone, you know, they just told me to keep my head down and know they’ll handle all the things at home and just wanted me to focus and just go out there and play basketball and get back to what I love doing, putting my head down and working. "Losing a second sibling to something so tragic. "Yeah, I definitely needed that time," Bullock said. And last season, his 22-year-old sister, Kiosha Moore, was lost, too, a victim of a shooting. Seven years ago, he lost a sister, Mia Henderson, who was murdered in Baltimore in what was believed to be a hate crime because she was transgender.