![]() ![]() The Knicks, as Marks noted, have the assets to make a major move and have begun to build a winning culture that will appeal to such players. Nobody knew Mitchell would get traded, or that Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving would become available. It has become the nature of the player-empowered NBA that superstars become available after coaching changes or down years or merely because they feel restless. I think their foundation is really good.” We don’t know when it happens, but they’re in a really good position, probably better than they were last offseason when they went through everything with Donovan Mitchell here. … There’s always going to be that next disgruntled All-Star that becomes available. “With these new collective-bargaining rules that are going to come this summer, they’re in a terrific spot. “I’ve said all along that they’re in a better spot than in 2021 when they lost in the first round,” ESPN NBA insider and former Nets executive Bobby Marks said on a conference call from the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago this past week. In Jalen Brunson, the Knicks have one of the best lead guards in the game, they just need to surround him with the proper talent. There isn’t a single player making $30 million or above, rare for a playoff team.ĥ Leon Rose and William Wesley Getty Images They have young players with upside, such as RJ Barrett, Mitchell Robinson, Immanuel Quickley and Quentin Grimes, and they own 10 first-round picks in the next seven years. The Knicks’ rotation includes just one impending free agent, midseason acquisition Josh Hart, they don’t have any draft picks, they have limited salary-cap space (the $12.2 nontaxpayer midlevel exception and the $4.5 million biannual exception) to use in free agency, and they have a long way to go to become a true title contender. The previous two times the Knicks reached the postseason, in 2012-21, they responded by winning just 35 games in the following seasons. They were projected, back in October, to make the play-in tournament, but they wound up as one of the final seven teams standing before they lost to the Heat in six games in the Eastern Conference semifinals. The Knicks were one of the NBA’s big surprises this past season, an unexpected playoff team that pulled off a first-round upset. Now comes the truly challenging part, when Knicks president Leon Rose earns his paycheck. Tom Thibodeau fine-tunes Knicks’ preseason rotation to rest starters Rival slams Knicks lawsuit as ‘public relations stunt,’ push for dismissal Knicks’ changes make attracting stars to NYC ‘realistic’: Four-time NBA champ Rick Pitino’s next New York resurrection is just getting started
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