Following up on a Marc Berman report from Thursday, Stefan Bondy of The New York Daily News confirms that Knicks forward Cam Reddish would like a change of scenery.
“It’s clear Cam has no place (with the Knicks),” Bondy’s source said, adding that the former lottery pick would prefer to be relocated.
After Berman published his report on Thursday, Reddish responded to an Instagram comment claiming that he requested a trade and seemingly disputed that notion: “When I do that? Y’all be trippin.”
Still, as Bondy observes (via Twitter), wanting a change of scenery and formally requesting a trade are two different things. Even if Reddish hasn’t done the latter, we now have multiple reports suggesting he’s hoping for the former.
Here’s more on the Knicks:
- RJ Barrett‘s new four-year extension with New York has a standard rising structure, starting at about $23.9MM in 2023/24 and increasing to $29.6MM by the fourth year, tweets ESPN’s Bobby Marks. According to Marks, Barrett will have $3MM in annual incentives — $1MM apiece for making an All-Star, All-NBA, and All-Defensive team.
- On his latest Hoop Collective podcast, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst claimed that the Knicks’ decision to halt Mitchell trade talks earlier this week and sign Barrett to an extension “created an incredible amount of animus” between the Knicks and Jazz (hat tip to RealGM). Barrett’s new deal complicated the salary-matching possibilities between the Knicks and Jazz due to the poison pill provision, and would’ve forced the two teams to reset their negotiations.
- The Knicks planned to continue pursuing Donovan Mitchell after agreeing on Monday to extend Barrett, but the Jazz began on Tuesday to focus on their discussions with the Cavaliers and never circled back to the Knicks before agreeing to a deal with Cleveland, says ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
- Jonathan Wasserman of Bleacher Report argues that the Knicks were wise to resist meeting Utah’s asking price for Mitchell, calling it a “disciplined” decision not to push so many of their chips into the middle of the table. Not everyone was as enthusiastic about New York’s decision though. “Who are they saving their picks for?” one player agent said to Eric Pincus of Bleacher Report. “(The Knicks) don’t really have the patience to build through the draft. Are they getting someone better than Donovan?”
- In case you missed it, we passed along several reports earlier today on what the Knicks had been offering for Mitchell.
You trade picks for a proven young star every time, unless you are tanking and there’s a Ja or Zion type player in the draft.
Exactly Then the Knicks are the Knicks. Horrible owner, another clueless GM and Coach.
All the young guys should try and get out of New York. With that coach and all that money tied to mediocre vets, their careers are gonna get stunted
Now that they lost out on Mitchell and decided to take a longer approach by holding on to all the mediocre draft picks they need a player development type at head coach. I think Thibs days may be numbered in New York.
Why Derrick Rose is the best player on the Knicks even if they would have added Mitchell, Derrick Rose still would have been the best player on the Knicks and he’s still on the Knicks, I’m sure Thibs is happy about the fact that Rose will be playing more minutes without Mitchell jamming up his rotation.
The Knicks are in a great steady as she goes state. They have players whom have been bid up on the strength of being mentioned in a number of trade scenarios to the point all know what to bid in any trade scenario to come along between now and Jan 15th.
They also have 4 first round picks next year. 2 top 14 protected from Detroit and Washington,the likely to not convey top 18 protected from Denver, all three that they got from the Thunder which in turn helped them sign Brunson. And in turn helped the Thunder to get Ousmane Dieng.
Plus theirs. Plus all the 5 to 8 first rounders the Jazz were trying to get from them.
For Once the Knicks are in great shape.
1st round picks, of any level (lottery, mid-level, low) have the same percentage chances in outcome:
1) 33% chance you get a perennial All-NBA talent (not even going to the HoF-level stuff, although a lot of them are at that level):Rudy Gobert, Trae, PG13
2) 33% chance you get “just a guy” – who can contribute, but nothing special (maybe they’re specialized as a rim runner, 3-pt shooter, secondary ball handler, etc): Evan Turner, Corey Maggette, Bojan B
3) 33% chance you draft a bust (for whatever circumstance): Frederic Weis, Anthony Bennett, Jan Vesely (only counting NBA success)
That’s 66% chance you get either a bust or a replaceable piece. 33% chance you get “THE GUY”.
I used to be one of the people who valued the dice role of drafting over getting the known player right here, right now. But when you look at it – the risk far outpaces the reward in terms of pure chance. Make the move, position the team to be able to make secondary moves (meaning don’t **** the bed like the Melo deal) and you build with a realistic goal in mind.
Saying we got so many chances at the slot machine has to, at some point, sound ridiculous.
Eh that dream of reuniting Barrett, Reddish and Zion on the Knicks was a real rainbow —
Especially when Barrett and Zion are taking home big game checks and Reddish who can play at a high level has yet to get the chance to play starters minutes and earn his.
And make no mistake about it, the Knicks are desperate to add Zion to the roster but Reddish is right to want out of that situation because while he was on equal footing with his collegiate comrades at Duke he will be the low man behind them on Knicks, and that ain’t gonna play.
Nice of Stefan Bondy, another low-tier NY tabloid writer, to ‘confirm’ Berman’s source-less nonsense about Reddish from yesterday. Never mind that there’s been nothing out of Reddish’s camp to confirm it or that Reddish denied the report completely. NY media is hilarious sometimes. Waiting for Phil Mushnick and Mike Lupica to chime in on how Reddish has begged the Knicks to trade him.
His dad was cool ….. though
They thought they could get away with it because, needless to say, it’s only logical that Cam would prefer to be anywhere he could actually be in the rotation. But that, of course, doesn’t mean he actually requested trade.
Insulting to the readers who they assume wouldn’t notice the difference. Then again, if you’re someone who actually follows either of these clowns on purpose, you probably don’t mind having your intelligence insulted and being taken for granted.
Now they have to at least pull some kind of consolidation move or the guy above is right, a good number of Knicks young guys will rot on the vine.
“When I do that?” What language is he speaking?
Cam’s speaking American English with a modern dialect. When you break it down it’s really no different than a southerner saying ya’ll instead of you all or a New Englander referring his automobile as his caw.
cah*?
you pahk the cah in the pahking laht in New England
“aw” is feels more NY/BK (specifically) – wahk the dawg, while you grab a cawfee
No it isn’t. It’s being ignorant on purpose, the new American way. The guy attended college.
No, honestly you’re being ignorant on purpose, languages evolve over time. If you listen to an Australian speak English it sounds nothing like someone in Jamaica. Nobody talks the the way people did 250, 100 or even 50 years ago.
I’m pretty sure there’s much more to gleam from you making this a thing than Cam using such diction.
Obviously you didn’t. I don’t know if you’ve been outside of the basement in sometime considering you can’t recognize slang – or you’re getting old and angry.
It was an instagram caption so he wasn’t speaking anything. Where’s Sankaras race card when you need it
“Who are they saving their picks for?” one player agent said to Eric Pincus of Bleacher Report. “(The Knicks) don’t really have the patience to build through the draft. Are they getting someone better than Donovan?”
This is what the narrative has always been about us. And everyone runs with it. It’s the national talk and consensus about the Knicks. Truth is Knicks haven’t built thru the draft since Ewing. And they really kind of blew that one. Although it was a lot of fun.
Dolan has never had the patience. And FOs have never had the security to do it. Or the cojones. So I’m all about building thru draft. It’s been two yrs. And we haven’t given away everything yet. That’s a good sign.
Rebuild rebuild rebuild …. In Thibs We Trust
You are delusional Alex, they offered all of your precious “rebuild” pieces plus 3 firsts and still got rejected.
The Knicks would F up a wet dream
Knicks with MSG is the richest in the WORLD.
So all you crybabies can go cry some more. Nothing but byters ….. bite that.
Richest sports franchises ……
Swallow slowly LOLS ……
link to forbes.com
We own the NBA ……..
Three of top 10 richest in the WORLD..
It’s a New York ….. thang.
So hate all you want. You will always be catching up.
MSG is building a state of the art place here in Vegas. It’s starting to take shape big time. The Nets are going to love playing there.
No idea why they traded for Reddish. Give the kid a chance. I just don’t think Thibs is the right coach for them right now. Too many talented kids that need time to develop and with all those picks, more on the way.
I’m not as bullish on Reddish as some of his bigger supporters, but you can’t blame him. I’m sure plenty of teams would give him a look, but not at the asking price the Knicks paid. Seemed like a strange trade at the time, even more so now.
Reddish and Toppin to the Lakers.
Like the way they ‘never circled back to the Knicks before agreeing to a deal with Cleveland’. Much better landing spot for Mitchell imho.