SupremeCommander wrote:One option I don't think that is being discussed enough is if we can't get trade for a big star, and we resign everyone, I think it might be a good year to package some picks together and move up in the draft. I think there are a few good wing prospects, not great but solid. Considering that everyone thinks this draft is suspect, maybe it would make sense to package our three picks and move up to draft Dalton Knecht, Cody Williams, Matas Buzelis, or Ronald Holland... I doubt we could get Zaccharie Risacher but maybe? I mean, this year is 'weak' but it appears to have a lot of prospects that could theoretically fit a need for us

Agreed, we need to be very careful messing with this roster. That January run was special stuff. Bucks go to show you how tinkering to add a star can backfire. I don't think there are many trade scenarios where we can end up better than simply bringing all of our guys back and add to the depth. Leveraging the draft to add talent we can groom slowly and use as emergency depth is a no brainer though, and maybe trading up for one guy we love is the move.

DLeethal wrote:Looks like Brunson is willing to sign 4 yr/156M extension this year and forego potential 5 year/270M extension next year.

This would also help to perhaps keep OG and Randle in that range.

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Got to.

martin wrote:

DLeethal wrote:Looks like Brunson is willing to sign 4 yr/156M extension this year and forego potential 5 year/270M extension next year.

This would also help to perhaps keep OG and Randle in that range.

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martin wrote:I'd go as far as saying that if Brunson signed this type of contract, he prob already has the leverage to demand that Leon do whatever is humanly possible to get Mikal on the team without touching its core players. And leverage is the wrong word, maybe it's gentleman's agreement between the 2 of them that the Knicks next trade target with all the picks for this exchange - be it this year or next or the following - will be Mikal.

Got to.

martin wrote:

DLeethal wrote:Looks like Brunson is willing to sign 4 yr/156M extension this year and forego potential 5 year/270M extension next year.

This would also help to perhaps keep OG and Randle in that range.

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Either that or he’s setting the tone for the rest of the guys to resign for reasonable contracts.

DLeethal wrote:Either that or he’s setting the tone for the rest of the guys to resign for reasonable contracts.

For sure, but he would also get a handshake on going after Mikal. Got to, Leon would owe him even after he gave Rick a good old pay raise too

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DLeethal wrote:Either that or he’s setting the tone for the rest of the guys to resign for reasonable contracts.

For sure, but he would also get a handshake on going after Mikal. Got to, Leon would owe him even after he gave Rick a good old pay raise too

makes some sense but what happens to Randle at 4 and OG at 3? does one of them go to bench

martin wrote:

Chandler wrote:

martin wrote:

DLeethal wrote:Either that or he’s setting the tone for the rest of the guys to resign for reasonable contracts.

For sure, but he would also get a handshake on going after Mikal. Got to, Leon would owe him even after he gave Rick a good old pay raise too

makes some sense but what happens to Randle at 4 and OG at 3? does one of them go to bench

DDV does.

Or **** it, Mikal got to

can mikal guard 2s? We need someone other than JB to handle the ball from time to time.

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Because we only have his early bird rights, we can only start him at $16.2mm.

Other teams can create cap space to sign him. The two biggest threats are OKC and SAS.

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/why-knicks-are-facing-an-uphill-battle-to-keep-isaiah-hartenstein-in-nba-free-agency/

That leaves two teams. New York's Bird Rights dilemma lines up perfectly for the Thunder to try to swipe Hartenstein. Oklahoma City can create roughly $35 million in cap space, but because of their impending extensions for Chet Holmgren and Jalen Williams, the Thunder probably don't want to hand out a long-term deal. That creates a logical deal structure here: The Thunder could offer Hartenstein a two-year deal with an inflated short-term salary that the Knicks couldn't match, but would allow Hartenstein to reenter free agency in 2026, when he is still only 28. Even if the Knicks give Hartenstein the biggest four-year deal they can, the gap in guaranteed money wouldn't necessarily be enormous, and it would force Hartenstein to wait until he was 29 or 30 to reenter free agency.