Ding-dong, the Charlie Ward Curse is dead! According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Knicks are signing RJ Barrett to a 4-year contract extension that could potentially be worth $120 million.
New York Knicks guard RJ Barrett is finalizing a four-year rookie extension that could be worth up to $120 million, his agent Bill Duffy of @BDA_Sports + @WME_Sports told ESPN, complicating the franchise’s offseason trade pursuit of Utah Jazz All-Star Donovan Mitchell. pic.twitter.com/6KkGm4ch8o
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 30, 2022
The rest of Woj’s tweet thread is mostly stuff about the Donovan Mitchell negotiations — apparently Knicks president Leon Rose was using Monday as kind of an artificial deadline for meeting their terms on a Mitchell deal, and once the Jazz balked, Rose went ahead and finalized the deal.