foreign media on November 20th, the NBA Eastern strong New York Knicks refused to implement Portis, Gibson, Wayne Ellington and Jr. Payton’s team options to free up the team’s approximately $42 million Salary space, in the 2020-21 season, Portis’ team options are $15.7 million, Payton Jr. 8 million, Gibson 10.29 million, Ellington 8.2 million, Payton averaged 10 points, 4.7 rebounds and 7.2 assists last season. Portis 10.1 points and 5.1 rebounds, Gibson 6.1 points and 4.3 rebounds, Ellington 5.1 points and 1.8 rebounds.
According to the current news, the New York Knicks are very interested in the Rockets’ Westbrook. The Knicks have directly laid off 4 players. They can directly use their salary space to buy Westbrook, and the Rockets are also Can free up salary space to sign Ibaka and other stars to reinforce the team. This may be a very good choice for two teams in a turbulent period. The Knicks need superstars and the Rockets need to release. Super giant, to give the main player James Harden more power to control the ball.
The rumors about Westbrook joining the Knicks seem to have become more convincing after the new NBA draft. In yesterday’s NBA draft, the New York Knicks selected the forward with the 8th pick in the first round. Obi Toppin, and then Westbrook immediately followed Toppin’s social media account. In fact, Toppin is not the hottest rookie player of this year. He and Westbrook have never met. At this time, Westbrook, Choosing to follow the young rookies of the Knicks shows that he is very concerned about this team.
In addition to Westbrook, according to a foreign reporter, the New York Knicks have been actively pursuing Celtics’ main small forward Gordon Hayward in the past week, and within the scope of the entire league , The fans are also increasingly convinced that Hayward will reject the 34 million player option next season and go to the Knicks, which has cleared the salary space. After cutting off four players including Portis, Payton Jr. and Gibson, The New York Knicks have 40 million cap space, which is enough to sign Hayward.
For the Celtics, the most important thing this year’s offseason is Hayward’s player options. Generally speaking, Hayward will not refuse to implement it. After all, there are 34.2 million. But after the two sides discussed, Hayward Germany chose to jump out of the last year's 34.2 million contract and become a free agent. In fact, the Celtics and Hayward have reached a consensus that he will not play for the Celtics next season regardless of whether he jumps out or not. The latter originally planned Let Hayward implement the one-year option. Although the contract amount is large, there is still transaction value. The above content of
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