Monday afternoon the Knicks will wade into the free-agent market much like they have the last two years, loaded with salary-cap space. While they are hopeful that they can convince their primary targets to sign on this time — unlike the last two offseasons — they still have huge decisions to make.
The Knicks have approximately $50 million in cap space, a figure that drops if they opt to keep their cap holds in place on Derrick Rose ($10 million), Reggie Bullock ($5.5 million) and Nerlens Noel ($6 million). The free-agent market is not the star-filled list that it has been in recent summers — or like the summer of 2022 could be.