Last season the Knicks turned Dennis Smith Jr. and a 2nd-round pick into Derrick Rose, who played well enough to actually finish ninth in NBA voting, all for the low low price of a little under $4M over half a season. Apparently the Knicks are into paying it forward.
Free agent G Derrick Rose has agreed to a three-year, $43M deal to return to the New York Knicks, source tells ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 3, 2021
If you like the job Tom Thibodeau did last season, you know Rose was about as big a part of that success as anyone not named Julius Randle.