After having worked hard during the draft in order to make room in their salary cap, the Knicks continue their work. Come on, we’re trading Nerlens Noel, Alec Burks, two draft rounds and six million dollars in Detroit, all once morest… an acknowledgment of receipt! And obviously, everything is now in place to offer a fat contract to a certain guy from Texas.
A few hours from a highly anticipated Free Agency, the movements continue on the side of the Big Apple. After a haphazardly run draft night, during which Scott Perry and his gang schemed to free up cap space, the Knicks continue to clean up their finances. New example this night, with a « trade » mounted with the Pistons. Finally, we are not even sure of being able to use this term so much the Knicks’ proposal is atypical: the guys from New York simply offered two players to their Michigan counterparts, Nerlens Noel and Alec Burks, for…nothing at all. And since that was obviously not enough to convince Detroit, the management new yorker added to deal two future draft picks and six million dollars. This is not a joke. There’s frankly not to say, the Knicks market is better than Black Friday or the summer sales. This financial op allows residents of Madison Square Garden to free up money to reinvest in a few hours, with a cap space which would now total $30 million for this summer. What to make a great offer to get the player who can change the destiny of your franchise and lead it on the road to success: is Jalen Brunson this man?
The Knicks are trading center Nerlens Noel and guard Alec Burks to the Pistons, sources tell ESPN. The Knicks will unload $19M more in salary, clearing the way for cap space to try and sign free agent guard Jalen Brunson.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 29, 2022
Yes but now, we know, the New York Knicks are not a franchise like the others. After going to so much trouble to make room in the cap space and offer themselves as many possibilities as possible, most franchises would have thought regarding who to rest all these tickets on, so as not to screw up by signing a guy in a hurry. Except that the Knicks have known what they want for several weeks. the management only has one name in mind, that of Jalen Brunson. It must be said that the point guard had a very good season in Dallas and that he is an interesting free agent. But where it sucks is that New York is preparing to go all-in for the Mavs player by offering a contract of (take a deep breath) $ 110 million over four years. A deal that Luka Doncic’s lieutenant will not find in any other franchise this summer. The Knicks would therefore be on the job to drop this proposal from 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Hey, maybe Jalen will end up justifying that big salary by becoming the leader of the Knicks, but we already see him Chandler Parsonizing the cap space from New York. Above all, we say to ourselves that there was surely something else to do with so many tickets this summer.
With this new operation, to say the least weird, the Knicks put an end to a strategy of cleaning up finances carried out as hard as blindly. There have been sacrifices, and in the event of arrival, Jalen Brunson will have a lot of pressure on his shoulders.
Source : ESPN
