CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Knicks’ conversion of Allonzo Trier’s two-way G-League contract into a standard NBA deal for two years and $6.8 million — completed Thursday — could eat into some cap space reserved for Warriors’ free-agent-to-be Kevin Durant.
According to a source, the second year of the deal is a team option, but the Knicks have every intention to exercise it as long as Trier continues being the rookie revelation he’s been as an undrafted scoring guard out of Arizona. The Knicks will use their biannual exception on the new contract.
Meanwhile, the Trier-Durant link could work in the Knicks’ favor.