One of Crow, EE or Jon should make a 2024-25 Knicks thread. But the Knicks Contracts page speaks pretty loudly to me.
- They have only $145M in committed salaries for 24-25, only marginally above the projected $141M cap, and well below the $172M projected tax line.
- OG has a player option for next year at $20M - he's gone unless NY is willing to put up $35M+ for 4 years. However, they can very easily get the cap space to do so.
- Randle is the team's top salary at $30.3M, one guaranteed year remaining plus a player option. Very tradeable.
- Brunson is extension-eligible, I'm pretty sure. He's in line for a big one. He's signed for next year at the moment though.
- Robinson, Hart and DiVincenzo are signed long-term at quite reasonable dollars.
- The 35yo Bogdanovic is signed for next year at ~$20 if they want him, but only $2M is guaranteed, the rest is effectively a team option that expires June 29th.
- Hartenstein is a free agent. There will be plenty of interest for him.
Cutting Bogdanovic and/or trading Randle should let them keep OG if they want to. They could then use their cap space to bolster the roster and put up the 30%-max that Brunson is probably in line for now. He's not supermax eligible (even if he opts into his 25-26 player option and waits the extra year), because he changed teams after completing his 4th year. If they drop Bogdanovic (-$18), sign OG at ~$35M (+$15) and Brunson at ~$42M (+$17), they are still only at ~$159M, without even having to dispose of Randle if they don't want to. But it might end up being a choice between Randle and Hartenstein for them, or equivalent replacement.
