We’re a few days away from the Knicks’ annual playoffs: free agency. Who’s coming? Who’s going? Those answers will come with time. Today we unveil epiphanies you’ll only find in the P&T mailbag.
1) “How much for D’Angelo Russell? If Kyrie [Irving] goes to the Nets [and] the Knicks strike out on everyone except maybe injured Kevin Durant, do you offer the max to D-lo?”
— PG Kawhi
Five years and $158 million? Nah. Especially if the Knicks sign KD. Then you’re locked into a 32-year-old coming off the worst injury in the game and a guy whose strengths all involve having the ball in his hands, which would diminish whatever returns remain from said 32-year-old.