The benefit of this wouldn’t be Cameron Payne it would be the 19 million dollar trade exemption given by trading Fournier. The Knicks have to trade him or that exemption goes away. That’s what the Knicks really want
At what point do we acknowledge that that no many how many "valuable assets" this team stockpiles, we're not actually doing anything with them? This is the the front offices 4th off season and what have we done with these assets we've accumulated? Trade back and out of the draft?
For all of this asset accumulation, the best thing we've done is trade our own pick for Josh Hart and move our own assets around to clear up space for Brunson and resign our own players.
If the best we can get from trading a former top 10 pick and an expiring $19 million dollar contract is a TPE to create space for a hypothetical impact player, that's a problem.
This front office has doubled down on being cautious and making prudent decisions and 4 seasons later, the fan base is still asked to be patient because we're not the dumpster fire we were before and have an identity, but we're 2 years out from all the can kicking coming back to bite us in the ass when we have to really start paying up.
If this TPE they're allegedly angling doesn't turn into anything, this front office and what is looking closer and closer to a 10 year plan every day needs to be called into question at a bare minimum, let the fukk go at worst.
