2021-2022 ROSTER TALK: [ARCHIVED]

[Mavs2021]

Looking at the Knicks cap for next year

Randle 26.1
Fournier 18.0
Rose 14.5
Barrett 11.0
Burks 10.0
Noel 9.2
Kemba 9.1
Reddish 6.0
Toppin 5.3
Gibson 5.1
Robinson 3.4 (caphold)
Quickley 2.3
Grimes 2.3
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122.3 (projected cap 119.0)

Say Brunson signs a 84/4 starting at around $17M/year. That means the Knicks need to shed around $20M in salary.

They´d probably like to dump Kemba and Burks.

So you can ask yourself how much that would cost instead of a direct (sign and) trade with the Mavs. I think two first round picks (one protected/one unprotected) is a pretty realistic scenario.

Furthermore the Knicks might like to shed some salary like Kemba for an additional asset.

So to sum it all toward a Knicks/Mavs trade that comes out to

Brunson for Grimes + Mavs 2023 1st round pick (that´s the protected pick), the Knicks 2023 1st round pick (that´s the unprotected pick) + Kemba (into the TPE)

Trading for Reddish actually improved our position, since it adds $6M to the Knicks 2022/2023 cap.