{"id":853494,"date":"2026-08-10T23:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853494\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T23:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:26:13","slug":"but-i-agree-with-edwards-on-this-i-dont-think-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853494\/","title":{"rendered":"But I agree with Edwards on this: I don\u2019t think the \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy James Edwards III wrote recently in The Athetic that he doesn&#8217;t expect the Knicks to offer Towns a max extension. Towns is a forever Knick; his play in New York&#8217;s championship season will be celebrated for as long as the franchise exists. <a data-ylk=\"slk:But I agree with Edwards on this: I don&#039;t think the Knicks will offer Towns a max in extension talks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;But I agree with Edwards on this: I don&#039;t think the Knicks will offer Towns a max in extension talks&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sny.tv\/articles\/knicks-notes-possible-karl-anthony-towns-extension\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">But I agree with Edwards on this: I don&#8217;t think the Knicks will offer Towns a max in extension talks<\/a>. Also, if I had to take a guess, the two sides will reach an agreement. Towns clearly loves New York. Maybe he can make more money with another team next summer (Towns has a $57 million salary this season and his contract has a $61 million player option for 2027-28).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My buddy James Edwards III wrote recently in The Athetic that he doesn&#8217;t expect the Knicks to offer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,296788,296790,296787,296789,459,82,42923,30618],"class_list":["post-853494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-championship-season","tag-extension-talks","tag-james-edwards","tag-max-extension","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-the-knicks","tag-towns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}