So much for waiting until the “last minute, last day, last second.”
Yahoo!’s Shams Chanaria has reported that Enes Kanter will opt in to the final year of his contract with the Knicks, worth $18.6 million:
New York Knicks center Enes Kanter plans to exercise his $18.6M player option today to return to the team next season, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 29, 2018
Kanter technically has until midnight tonight to come to that decision, and although he still hasn’t made his sure-to-be-lame social media announcement yet, it seems that the big Turk is here to stay, at least for one more season.