Guys taking huge discounts to stay with the world champion Knicks. Kids these days are gonna grow up in such a different world than I did :‘)

Yeah, and I get it. If Brogden hadn’t retired, Landry might’ve ended up out of the league entirely. But the Knicks have done right by him with the shoulder stuff for two seasons now. It makes sense that he’d value long term security.

• He turned down higher offers to stay with a team that kept him on and got him medical treatment after he dislocated his shoulder on a non-guaranteed, minimum, pre-season, one-year, Exhibit-9 contract.
  
• He turned down higher offers to stay with a team that kept him on and got him medical treatment after he re-injured that same shoulder the next year.
  
• He turned down higher offers to stay with a team where he earned a NBA cup bonus.
• He turned down higher offers to stay with a team where he earned a NBA champion bonus.
  
• He turned down higher offers to stay with a team that let him aura farm posing topless in DPOG photos. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

I wish I could turn down higher offers to stay with an organization like the Knicks…

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Maybe he also values our market, the eventual endorsements and everything, like that one time he got to be a US Open photographer

His value was likely the \(6m Tax MLE vs the \)15m Non Tax MLE.

Shamet was 29yrs old averaging 9pts this last year with a career average of 8pts.

Not like he took this massive jump after being on 6 teams in 7yrs.

Seems like he turned down higher offers to stay with us.

Also you get to star in every advertisement known to man

he gets to hang out with his father john turturro all the time now

He also hasn’t been a minimum player his whole career. He’s made ~\(33m in his career to date and will add another ~\)24m.

When you account for bonuses and endorsements etc, he’ll have made over $60m before he’s 35.

Even in an expensive city like NY that’s still a lot of money.

Kwahi walked so mitch could run and Adam silver did nothing

I mean if aspiration isn’t going to have any consequences……

That would be a great match honestly

I will say he’s played his worst basketball during this playoff run he’s a huge reason we beat sixers Celtics and pistons previous couple years

His rebounding is a bigger impact than anything. His defense has been a bit overrated for awhile now. He’s definitely great at matching up against bigs like Wemby or Embiid etc

His rebounding is absolutely vital to the team and has won them playoff series. He grabbed the offense rebound in Game 5 after Hart’s FT miss that basically sealed the deal. That goes without saying how important his defense on Wemby was. We he and KAT didnt play because of fouls, the Knicks went small instead of playing their 3rd Center, Hukporti.

Going way further back, he was important in the 2023 Cavs series and the 2024 Sixers series.

Call me a homer but Robinson was a major piece for the team that just can’t be replaced.

2026 Knicks led the playoffs in 2nd-chance points (17.6ppg), and held opponents to the fewest 2nd-chance points (12.1ppg). Mitch is a big reason for that, even in limited floor time.

Mitch is an outlier who’s superpower (OREBs) is so extreme it generates net-positive offense though extra shots, even though he’s a fundamentally broken player with zero range and is a historically poor FT shooter.

For what he was making, they will miss him. For what the Lakers might throw at him, they won’t.

I think there’s a pretty good chance they lose to the Spurs without Mitch. KAT had tons of foul trouble after the first 2 games, and the Knicks won every one of the four games they won by the skin of their teeth. If they’re running Hukporti out there against Wemby instead of Mitch during crucial KAT-less minutes, they’re definitely bleeding more points in those stints and probably losing a lot of the games they won.

A lot of succeeding in the playoffs is not having an exploitable weakness. That’s why e.g. the Spurs could barely afford to play Kornet even though he’s a decent regular season backup big. Even when Mitch is not wowing with crazy stats, at a minimum he’s not posing a crucial weakness at a position that is very difficult to fill competently. That sort of thing can absolutely swing playoff games and series.

Shamet for $6MM with his shooting, defense and ability to put the ball on the floor and drive and kick and function as the secondary ball handler makes him more valuable than both Champagnie and Dort.

Shamet showed he is more than capable of being a secondary ball handler next to a dominant one as he did for the Knicks after the All-Star break.

I find it shocking that he took such a massive discount when teams like Minnesota, Orlando, Toronto, San Antonio, Detroit, Atlanta, and many other playoff contenders need a wing that can put the ball on the floor and score and create on top of playing defense and hitting threes.

I get he’s 29, but he should have been able to get 4 years at ~$10MM per year easily for a win now team.

They’re reporting he did

Brunson really started a culture of winning 😭🙌

Yes they do, They desperately need a rebounding center

If we’re losing Mitch they might want to trade McBride for a big. Trading him now would also be kinda what we did with quickley

I mean logistically he hasn’t fit this team for a couple of years now, and we’re gonna trade him at his lowest possible value being that he’s an expiring and coming off a terrible Finals. Most of his value was his contract for his production.

With his bargain contract he should’ve been traded after 2024, he hasn’t had a true path to help this team win for a long time now.

We still cook every team in the east this year without him and he was just trash in the finals and we won anyway. He lost value every day that we got closer to the end of his bargain contract and now we’re at the point where we’ve kinda just fumbled him as an asset.

Yeah I think he was really poor all postseason compared to everyone else in the rotation. Shamet overtook him in the rotation. McBride’s contract is still valuable I think they could get a cheap back up big

I dont think Knicks fans forgot. Once the report came out it wasn’t really a pinky and more of the pinky bone in the hand, everyone one of my friends got Amare PTSD.

at least Amare was already “cooked’ by then.

He had back and knee injuries all that season (his 2nd season with the knicks) and was only averaging an inefficient 17ppg.