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Clearing cap area to aim to signal Jalen Brunson as a free agent within the coming days is a stable, if unspectacular, place to begin for the Knicks’ summer time (assuming the Mavericks level guard agrees to a deal, as many anticipate).
However transaction season has additionally introduced the oh-so-familiar pangs of disappointment to Madison Sq. Backyard when a dream situation unfolded in entrance of the Knicks and simply as rapidly handed them by this week. A makeable likelihood so as to add rising All-Star guard Dejounte Murray to a totally revamped beginning backcourt gave the impression to be in group president Leon Rose’s grasp, but it was to not be.
Buying and selling away draft picks was the working folly of previous entrance workplace regimes, however doing so for a well-rounded and fairly priced standout akin to San Antonio’s Murray to play with Brunson would have been that uncommon no-brainer for the Knicks.
Murray as an alternative was traded on Wednesday to the Hawks, who will pair him with MSG favourite Trae Younger in return for 3 first-round picks (two of them unprotected), a future swap of picks and ex-Knick Danilo Galinari to offset the cash.
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