Knicks given hope by latest LeBron James free agent news originally appeared on The Sporting News.
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The New York Knicks haven’t been mentioned at all as a destination for LeBron James this summer.
King James has been a popular rumor for the Knicks in the past, but on paper, the financials wouldn’t add up to make it work out this time around.
The NBA champions might actually have a path, though.
ESPN’s Shams Charania joined the show Get Up on Wednesday morning, and he had this to say:
“If you are a team with contending aspirations, LeBron James according to my sources it is not a financially driven decision. If you want to slot him in and pitch him on a minimum, an exception, pitch him in a non max contract, there seems to be a window there.”
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Essentially, that says that if James wants to join your team, he doesn’t care much about the money.
Sure, he’d take a bigger contract if a given team can afford it.
But teams like the Knicks or the Cleveland Cavaliers aren’t in position to pay LeBron anything close to a max deal.
It sounds, based on this report, like that won’t be a big deal.
The reality is that this is about much more than the Knicks. Charania has swung the door wide open here.
Could the Thunder get involved? The Timberwolves? The Celtics?
It really feels like, with this update, that nothing is off the table.
But for any Knicks fans who were thinking about adding LeBron to the roster coming off a championship, it’s now slightly more realistic than it may have seemed before.
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