Come June 29, either Enes Kanter or the New York Knicks will be tasked with a decision that will alter their respective and collective futures. Kanter has a player option for the 2018-19 season that will pay him upwards of $18.6 million, but he also has suitors in free agency.
Kanter opting in would put the decision entirely in his hands, but a decision to enter free agency would create quite the dilemma.
New York plans to limit its spending to short-term contracts that help it preserve cap space for the summer of 2019. Kanter opting in would facilitate that vision, but in the event that he opts out, Scott Perry would face an internal debate about whether or not to re-sign him.