MILLS There are a lot of teams that call, but you don’t get that many calls from teams who are picking from, let’s just say, 15 to 30. Everybody who is in that range wants to know, “Would you be willing to move down for X, Y and Z?” So we’re diligent in trying to be open to thinking about whether there’s a combination of a good player plus a move down that we think rounds out our roster and puts us in a better position to build this team and move it forward. At the same time, we understand that we’re going to get a really good player that can be a part of where we’re going long term at No. 4.

Q. Do you have positional priorities this off-season?

JACKSON Yeah, we have no big men. So we’re seeing what can we add to our team that will move us along and make us a better team, and we’ll have to fill out that big possibility with some free agents if we end up going smaller with wings and guards in the draft. But there’s some good players. This is a draft that everybody feels like, in the lottery, from 1 through 14, there’s really good players, and a lot of good players that will be there in the later part of the first round, too. History tells us that 1 through 10 usually indicates that you’re going to get a starter at some level.

MILLS We obviously can see holes in our roster. But one of the positives that came out of last season was that when we did our exit meetings, there wasn’t one single guy who played on the team last year that doesn’t want to be back. So we felt that was progress and that things were moving in the right direction after we made the trades that we made. It felt like a second season. We were moving forward, and they all want to be part of it. So now our job is looking at, O.K., what’s going to happen in the draft? What do we think we can do in free agency? And then looking at the guys who were a part of what we did last year. Which of those guys can fill roles or help continue to move this thing forward and not have a wholesale change where we have to introduce nine new guys to our roster?

JACKSON We have guys that all played together. They know how to use the system, so that’ll help us.

Q. The team won 17 games, and Carmelo Anthony is coming off knee surgery. How are you going to sell the Knicks as an appealing destination to free agents?

JACKSON When we saw that the season was not going to be successful, that our chances of making the playoffs were gone, we had to create what we could create and do the right thing, which was get players who wanted to go places for the playoffs, like Pablo Prigioni and Amar’e Stoudemire and so forth, their opportunities. In the process, we had to try to keep our coaching staff and our players understanding of what we were looking for.

I don’t think the offensive system has to take a back seat to anything we do. We’re looking for people who want to play a full basketball game, that want to be able to make plays, that want to be able to do things that are a credit to their skills. I think people that want to play the full game have seen that demonstrated, and if they’re interested in doing that, they know that this system can feature what they can do. And we have people who are interested. So we feel good about that.

MILLS We’re fortunate that we had a group of young players who really enjoyed being here. They understand what it’s like to play in New York and what it’s like to play in the Garden. When guys are thinking about where they’re going in free agency, they want to play with an elite player, and we have that in Carmelo. We have a group of role players around him who all had a good experience. So when they’re out talking to players about what it’s like to be with Phil here and what it’s like to play with Fish as the coach and what it’s like to play with Carmelo, we’re confident that all those conversations are positive. And then we have the benefit of Carmelo having gone through free agency and the recruitment process last summer. So he sits down with me a lot and talks to Phil and talks about what was important in his journey and what wasn’t important. So it gives us an opportunity to have him involved in the process.