Breaking: Knicks should only trade for Donovan Mitchell if they don’t overpay

Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty ImagesI’m teaching in-person for the first time in three years, and wouldn’t you know it: this morning I had to go to a walk-in clinic for a Covid test. I feel lousy. In that vein, I want to talk about the rumored Knicks/Donovan Mitchell trade. This was going to be a duet with Lee Escobedo, but I keep falling asleep every every few hours; I’m afraid if I committed to that project poor Lee would be stuck waiting for my bits until it was too late to run the piece (this just happened with a prospective Knicks/Thomas Bryant piece).

One of the first things you learn in journalism is that dog-bites-man isn’t a story. The audience doesn’t need you telling them things they…