Leon Rose has looked at the Knicks’ situation going forward and has decreed, “Eh, this is fine.”
With the $52-54 million in available cap space, Rose decided to bring the band back together again long term.
Last year, during the season, we often discussed one of the problematic aspects of the strong Knick play in the 2020-21 season, which was that a lot of the Knicks’ success was derived from veterans who were going to be free agents and that they all played well enough that they were likely looking at offers of three years on the open market at around the mid-level (which is roughly $10 million), except for MVP vote-getter and Sixth Man of the Year finalist, Derrick Rose, who probably had a slightly higher financial outlook.