BRUNSON BURNER: to NYK for 4yrs/$104M (no SnT) | NYK docked 2025 2nd for tampering

[SleepingHero]

https://twitter.com/mattmcloudy/status/1...5409721344

This tweet doesn't make sense. Knicks currently, if they only waive the non-guarantees and renounce all of their team options save Barrett and Obi,  can offer at most 4/90 right now. 

If they dump Noel alone, that number jumps to 4/125. But doing so will leave the Knicks with 9 guys under contract with no starting center. Keeping Robinsons hold brings that down to 4/120. Again a lot of money. Basically their only choice is resigning Robinson as a starting center at that point. 

We have to ask ourselves, how good is a JB/Fournier/Barrett/Randle/Robinson team? Are they worth paying the tax as the Knicks would be set to do should they go this route? Are they any better than MIL/MIA/BOS/CHI/PHI/TOR/ATL? I mean heck are they even better than the next tier of CHA/WAS? This isn't even adding the Nets but if they retain Kyrie and KD, add another team that's better than the Knicks in this fantasy. 

Can you imagine how fast Leon Rose would be fired should this plan backfire? Overpaying for Brunson, only to wind up as a 10th seed with the tax looming. Their fans would revolt and call into question whether or not some nepotism is the reason why Brunson got overpaid and his dad became an assistant.