Knicks roster6/11/2023 ![]() Ognjen Jaramaz, one of the Knicks’ 2nd-round picks last June, hasn’t been signed by New York and thus not on the roster, but they still owns his rights. Hopefully Luke blossoms and helps break the feudal chains of the NBA’s morally abject exploitation of its workers. Two-way deals are a shitty c’est la vie for those players signed to them. Kornet, the sweet-shooting seven-footer out of Vanderbilt who signed a two-way deal, earns $75,000 if he’s never promoted to the Knicks, and around $275,000 if he spends the maximum allowable 45 days with the big club during the G-League D-League season. If I’m gonna watch another six months of suckage, let that suckage involve Kanter putting up 24 and 10 while giving up 30 on the other end and McDermott becoming the rich man’s Jimmer Fredette worst-case scenario, the Knicks don’t extend the qualifying offer and free up that much more cap room. But this trade, coupled with Kristaps Porzingis likely adjusting to life as the lead option and Frank Ntilikina adjusting to life in the NBA, means the 2018 Knicks gonna be all about entertankment, or what the Germans call panzerhaltung. No one’s ever called Dougie McBuckets Dougie Defense, for good reason, and Kanter’s combination of size and matador-D will trigger neo-Barguments in this year’s comment sections. I myself am mostly interested in Kanter, an outspoken critic of Turkey’s president/monster Recep Erdogan, packing his bags for New York City days after fisticuffs broke out between supporters and opponents of the Turkish ruler. Others look at some of the recent deals signed by big men, look at Kanter’s exceptional per-36 productivity, and think it’s a lock he opts-out.Įither way, he’s a highly-skilled scorer and rebounder in the last year of his contract, meaning someone may be willing to send the Knicks something of value for him near the trade deadline. Some people think a one-dimensional center in today’s NBA would never turn down that kind of guaranteed money. The Knicks saved about $5 million in the trade, putting them slightly under the cap and potentially on the path of becoming one of those smart teams you hear about who trade cap space for draft picks or young assets when other teams come calling looking to move salary mid-season.Įnes Kanter makes $17.8 million this season and holds a player option next year for $18.6 million. But what of the post-Melo roster? What’s the new normal look like, now and moving forward? Let’s start by looking over the payroll, courtesy of Jeffrey Bellone. Saturday’s Carmelo Anthony trade brought an answer to one long-running question. ‘Cause then there’s nothing left to ask.” “The true misery,” Da Vinci replies, “is if all the questions are solved. “Every question you answer leads to another question,” Verrocchio says in Da Vinci’s Demons, “and such quests lead many to nothing but misery.” ![]()
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