You can keep Randle but please God fuck give DiVincenzo back.

As a long time Randle guy from his “coulda woulda shoulda” tough start as a Laker with the injured, I’m really happy to see this support in the wild finally come around.

Danny Ainge, they didnt get a first rounder for existing near this deal.

People just don’t think about/understand contracts (me included). We recently re-signed Randle to a ³⁄₁₀₀ contract, where he gets paid 35m in 2027-28. Kat is on the books for 61m in 2027-28. Kat is better than Randle, but he’s not 26m better.

Could you imagine throwing KAT in our lineup? That’s one of the worst defenses of all time

I mean we could probably run KAT with either Moussa or Kalk at any given time, doubt he’s that much of a drop from Miles (who I’m assuming would be part of this)

Trae was sent out for nothing tbf, kat could be too

Fuck no keep that scum off my team

I mean we kinda down on our Own bridges for now 

We don’t need another Mi. Bridges

Let’s go! Let’s get a wacko NBA trade in here!

My my my, how the turntables

I honestly dont know why the Knicks would want Banchero with Bridges and OG.

It’s like the prisoner’s dilemma. If a team doesn’t max their not-really-max, but still very good guy, some other team is just gonna max him and take him away. So the only way for this to stop is for everyone to agree to stop doing it at the same time.

Thank you.

Yet you still see Reddit fanboys in every extension announcement thread saying ‘good deal to keep him, he’s been a great player’ for a bloke getting 20-4-4 on 45m a year.

Weren’t all those guys top 15 when they signed those max contracts? Or maybe just Young wasn’t

True. But i also feel like its easier to hand out max contracts to guys like Brown who play great defense.

Case and point, if lakers give Reaves anywhere near a max contract this summer they are never getting out of the 2nd or even 1st round of the playoffs in the Luka era

Jaylen Brown almost certainly wouldnt have gotten that super max with the current CBA though

It could have been really bad if JB didn’t take a leap, I’d argue twice with ²³⁄₂₄ and this season. The team would be in a really tough place with his and Tatum’s contract and almost inevitably would have to trade JB at some point

A center that’s bad at defense is something that requires super specific team building similar to those small guards and teams nowadays love versatility and size. Teams don’t want to be locked into a specific scheme unless you’re generational at offense like a luka or jokic.

Jokic is the exception for a center with bad defense b/c he’s basically a top 3 offensive player all time kat is an elite shooter but he’s nowhere close to that level of offensive production.

except he can’t rebound

They don’t and JJJ isn’t getting traded

It would ruin the Kuminga-to-New Orleans Industrial Complex, for one.

I’d rather have Kuminga making \(23m doing nothing on the bench than KAT playing & making \)57m. Also can you imagine not only reuniting him with Jimmy, but also adding Draymond to the mic?

Edit: also we’d have to send out more to make money work

They would be significantly worse with Randle instead of KAT.

Zu’s too young for that Clips team. They gotta get a 30-year-old in there instead.

If AD didn’t get the recent injury we might be desperate enough to do it.

JJJ could go back to where he excelled best and that’s playing next to an extremely talented rebounder, like with Steven Adams. Mitch and JJJ would be a great front court just not sure how much that would propel the Knicks and how it’d look asset wise. But it’d help their defense big time even in JJJs down year

He is saying because KAT normal is a 40+% shooter. 35 is his worst career season

Gabagool

KAT….whatevuh happened there?

TLDR: I think thibs firing is a factor just not the fact he was fired but simply because browns offense simply doesn’t gel with KAT at all

Full answer with some extra bullshit:

I’m not really sure cause they had a falling out when thibs was on the wolves

I think maybe thibs was a lil more lenient with KAT after his tenure previously (especially compared to other players) while brown wouldnt hold back 

although that draymond shit was crazy (i cant defend brown saying that shit)

Brown is most likely trying to play KAT a different way then he KAT is use to in pretty much is whole career

People are revising history saying thibs was better when we would heavily stagnant with him due to his absolutely terrible rotations and offensive schemes

While brown had us moving the ball way better on offense while sacrificing some defensive capabilities

Hell we’ve seen what the knicks can do when theyre firing on  the correct cylinders (NBA cup win especially shows this)

I cant defend the defense though, I think the players are just completely outta it and lazy af since its almost all-star break

I think if they fired thibs a season earlier they could’ve went with a younger coach but cause it happened last season theyre window is starting to run short and they wanna go with proven coaches

The main issue that came from it was the the front office not having a plan, if they searched for coaches ahead of time before the firing I think we would’ve seen much better options

I would’ve preferred someone else compared to Mike brown but I also think it could’ve been much worse then the coach we went with

A problem for a problem

Enticing too me as long the money and fillers work (lets say AD + Exum (waive immediately) to knicks, KAT + Yabu to mavs, dump dlo to 3rd team (knicks send 2nd))

In the end imo mavs can cover KAT on defense while his ability on offense can trickle down to others (like PJ, Coop, and Naji will feast with him stretch the floor)

Eat the other front court

be hilarious.

JJJ and KAT actually are a good fit together and Edey never plays

Edey in the paint, JJJ and KAT at the 3 and 4 spending all game floating to the wing to catapult bad 3s because they are soft in the post. In this scenario Edey also rebounds.

Yes. Realized Memphis makes more sense for all

I love KAT and he’s obviously a great offensive player, but I feel he doesn’t really have great offensive chemistry with his guards. Him and Ant were obviously dangerous offensively, but they never really had an elite 2-man game