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If someone makes Diawara an offer with an AAV at or above the TPMLE, it would be extremely difficult for the Knicks to match it.
If we need to use the TPMLE to retain him, we’re hard-capped at the second apron. If someone goes above the TPMLE with an offer sheet, we have no means of matching unless we somehow open up the full MLE (unlikely). We can offer 4/$11M on our own without having to use the TPMLE.
My best guess remains that the latter happens, but if a team is really dedicated to Jeremy Linning us, they can do it.
“I had no idea Mitch really was so close to being in the top three longest tenured Knicks.”
Not surprising at all, Brian. He has indeed been here for 8 seasons, but he has only played in 386 games thus far. Of all the players who played 10 seasons with the Knicks, no one played fewer than 650 games (oft-injured Willis). If you look at minutes played, Mitch doesn’t even lead the current Knicks…Brunson surpassed him in less than 4 seasons. Willis played over 23,000 minutes. Mitch doesn’t even crack the top 50…for reference, the 50th spot is held by Tyson Chandler.
To be fair, he does rank high on some lists for the Knicks, I asked Allen Iverson and he got back to me with this:
“for reference, the 50th spot is held by Tyson Chandler.”
sorry, AI got this one wrong, not sure where Mitch ranks in total minutes but Chandler only played 5887 minutes with the Knicks. So maybe Mitch is in the top 50.
just sort by column
https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/NYK/players.html
LOL
Would’ve put all my money on Ewing, but looks like Oak has a narrow lead (2580 against 2568). Good thing i’m not a betting man, i suck at it. LOL
Now i’m off to the mountains… see you later, wally-gators! 😉
It’s not clear to me that this is the consequence.
I *think* we can still match using RFA rights. What he’s saying is that we have fewer methods of matching or even making an offer.
The only method of making an offer above what’s basically the minimum would be to use the TP-MLE, capping us at the 2nd apron. This effectively forces us to relinquish Mitch.
For Diawara to get paid much beyond the minimum without a hard cap, the only method would be to make the qualifying offer and wait for him to accept another team’s offer we can match.
My understanding is that the situation is interesting for a few reasons:
(1)( The Gilbert Arenas provision can apply, which rarely does. This is the “poison pill contract” that allows teams to make an offer that jumps up to the max in year 3. This is how we lost Lin.
(2)(Due to the 1yr deal, offers from other teams are not capped at an AAV of the TP-MLE, meaning it can be prohibitively expensive.
(3)(This may be the rare instance where a team actually makes an offer on a RFA, which has become incredibly rare.
There’s 2 reasons for this: (a) a team can force us to choose between going above the 2nd apron or losing Diawara, which will appeal to our competition, and (b) we can’t make an initial offer commensurate with his ability.
TLDR: (
We can always retain him but we can get absolutely fucked over in a way that’s rarely allowed.
To anyone flying any time soon… It took me 1.5 hours to get through security at LGA.
There’s no CLEAR at LGA but pre-check would’ve been only 10min
We may be better off in the long term if Diawara cools off further.
Problem is, we’re all about the short term right now.
Too bad Cyber’s off to the mountains, because:
“Queta, who also dropped in a feathery hook shot with his left hand in the same game, finished with 16 points and 15 rebounds, coming on the heels of a 27-point, 17-rebound eruption against Philadelphia five days earlier.
He’s been one of the league’s most improved players this season, an advanced stats darling with a PER of 19.9, a 63.6 shooting percentage and rates of rebounds and blocks that rank him among the league’s top dozen players in both categories.”
When I close my eyes, I see Huk. Probably not, but given where Quetta came from…
I’ll also say Reaves is getting paid $14M AAV because he was a RFA, so it’s not a foregone conclusion someone makes a big offer.
The defensive metrics really, really like Hukporti. His offense just makes Frank Ntilikina look like… well, you can’t be much worse than Ntilikina, but he’s equally bad.
First of all, remember what Jeremy Lin did to get that offer from Houston. In 2 weeks from 2/4-2/19: 25/7, 28/8, 38/7 (outplaying Kobe on Nat’l TV), 27/11 and 28/14 FFS! Diawara is a little bit behind that supernova streak.
Even if he showed he was ready to be a good starter in the NBA and someone offered him a back loaded “good” contract, couldn’t we trade a guy like Hart for 3 seconds and open plenty of space to deal with it since this exploding Diawara form of would likely take all his minutes next season?
Marcus Aurelius would certainly not approve of all this kvetching.
Does MO’s defense grade out well?
He’s been good. He obviously is young enough to project very well. I wish we had him on Deuce’s deal.
But if someone offered him a bag, I don’t know if he would be worth it. He’s a super high variance prospect.
The fact he’s come this far, even if we lose him, at least gives a sense the FO knows what it’s doing. Augurs well.
https://x.com/NBA_NewYork/status/2033029672775172457
Lets find something else to worry anout. Mamdani is making sure Mo stays…
It’s so funny to me that Mamdani understands that Mo is the man. He’s got that much swag.
fun matchup so far with pistons at raptors…
when healthy the raptors are a pretty solid team…
newish player crush cade is back playing, and playing well of course…
was just explaining to oldest son why cade is my new favorite nba player…
told him cuz he’s a large point guard (something i always wanted for the knicks), he plays both ends of the court, even though he’s young he takes the game real serious, other stuff…
sometime before finishing all that, heard the door close upstairs and son mumble something about how good the ice tea was we just picked up at the store…
yesterday youngest son played 5 games in about 6 hours, it was cool to watch, some real hooper stuff 😊 , gotta remember to bring candy next time…their 4th game was pretty intense, was against the team that had beat them in their 2nd game…
enjoyed myself, my role is gear guy…ball, drink, sweats, shoes, and soon to add: some kind of trolli’s maybe…johnny on the spot am i…
I’m bitting my tougue so hard it is bleeding 🙂
talk about talking to kids: impulse control is a big point of discussion these days…
it’s really not that easy, but it is possible…control your body, then control your mind…
man, I didn’t start in on that stuff ’til well past 50, never to late to learn some new tricks…
The Mamdani stuff is more than fine; it’s very cool. I just don’t understand the Cade love, especially not at this current time in our Knicks fandom—I simply can’t fathom rooting for anyone on our prime opponents Detroit and Boston—sorry, geo. It’s something akin to loving Hali last year.
I loved Hali. He played with joy, and energy, and smiled all the time, and his fugly jumper was worse than Cam Payne’s. Then he did the choke thing and it was like finding your girlfriend in bed with another guy. Yet more proof as to why there should be gun control (both examples, to be honest…).
Maybe Hali was a bad example. 🙂 And I should have said that I *personally* can’t fathom rooting for a Piston or a Celtic, but I respect others’ rights to do so. I definitely won’t be rooting for anyone on the Heat (or whoever our first-round opponent is) at the time that we are playing them. Those two things are not that far off from each other. Again, speaking only for myself.
The mighty Cavs just lost at home to Dallas.
I think you’re going to get the Cavs tanking to stay away from Boston in a possible 2nd rd matchup.
*Detroit just lost to Toronto
Geo’s man-crush Cade goes for 33 and is a team-worst -13.
Meanwhile IQ goes 1-12 and is a +14.
Life’s funny that way.
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