From ESPN News Services:
The NBA champion New York Knicks are set to keep a key contributor long term as veteran guard Landry Shamet intends to sign a four-year, $24 million deal with the team, sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania on Monday.
Shamet, 29, was set to become an unrestricted free agent, with sources telling Charania that there was a growing market of multiple suitors forming for July 1.
Shamet’s agent, George S. Langberg of GSL Sports Group, worked with Knicks executives Monday to land the long-term commitment, sources told Charania.
The contract will allow New York to remain below the second apron after the roster is filled out, something owner James Dolan previously said the team had to do. The Knicks will now have 11 players under contract.
Excellent news! I’m glad that Landry finally got a multi-year deal. Good for him.
This certainly seems to be designed specifically to free up money to use the TPMLE to sign a Mitch replacement, but, hey, we can dream a little bit longer that there will be some sort of way for them to re-sign Mitch still somehow!
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“If we sign Huk to the minimum, it cuts into the TP-MLE. We’d have around $3.7M instead of $6M.
We could sign Huk to a 2-way to preserve the full TP-MLE. But he’d be limited to 50 games and may not want the pay cut.”
But that suggests that we only have the TPMLE left, which can’t be true. because if we used the full TPMLE on a player ant that used all of our cap space, we’d only be at 13 players.
Would it maybe have to be a 1-year deal?
In any case, it would be dumb to lose Huk.
Boom! There it is!! Approximately 30 mins after the universe woke me up with the same exact idea. That wasn’t a coincidence, that was synchronicity.
I will explain it below in detail, but rest assured…
It’s over.
The good guys won.
Mitch is coming back. Maybe even Clarkson is, too.
Can we somehow aggregate the TPMLE with Kolek and Dadiet to get into Mitch’s territory? Maybe indirectly somehow?
EB I see the math now. Sounds like Dadiet would have to go to free up space for a minimum deal for Huk and still have room for the full TPMLE.
“Can we somehow aggregate the TPMLE with Kolek and Dadiet to get into Mitch’s territory? Maybe indirectly somehow?”
My recollection is that the MLE can’t be aggregated.
Detailed summary of what’s going on…
Exhibit A:
We can’t even sign Huk and use the TPMLE. Or we have to shed 2-3 players to be able to use it. Come on. This isn’t “flexibility”, it’s suicide.
Even a dipshit like Dolan can figure it out now.
Oh no. Absolutely not.
But what have I been saying all this time? Dolan is like Trump. And Trump always chickens out when one of his stupid ideas blows up in his face. You just have to give him some transparent face-saving bullshit as cover.
That’s what Carton just did. And that’s how I know this is all over (and you should, too).
Carton is Trump’s Fox News. What do they do every time Trump chickens out? They go on the air and spin it like it was The Art Of The Deal all along, like Carton’s doing right now.
It’s his transparent face-saving cover for changing his mind. That’s how you know this is almost over.
So what’s about to happen now?
I figured it out last night…
Leon’s got the KAT extension agreed to in principle. That’s the number we can’t see. Landry’s salary is not the number that allows us to use the TPMLE this year. It’s the number that gets us under the second apron in 2027-28.
So what is the hold up?
I’m not sure Mitch wants to come back.
Maybe he wants more $ than what the Knicks carved out. Maybe he wants to start somewhere. Maybe he doesn’t take this shit too seriously and just wants to have more fun.
But I think the last piece here is not convincing Dipshit to go over the second apron, it’s convincing Mitch to return.
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