{"id":933826,"date":"2026-10-15T10:27:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933826\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:27:04","slug":"how-to-open-a-roster-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/933826\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Open a Roster Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning! The Knicks finish up their preseason at home tonight at 7:30 against the Raptors. Hopefully they can get a victory before the real games begin.<\/p>\n

As for who will be on the roster by Tuesday night\u2026<\/p>\n

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The Knicks have a logjam. Perhaps you\u2019ve heard.<\/p>\n

As of now, they have 13 players on guaranteed contracts. The 14th spot, it is assumed, will go to a third string center, which seems likely to be James Wiseman at this point. We\u2019ve also had multiple reports that Bruce Brown is likely to make the roster as well. That\u2019s an issue, as the Knicks don\u2019t currently have enough room under the second apron to sign a 15th player. There are all kinds of ways they can open up some more space (Jalen Brunson for Jordan Poole, who says no?), but the easiest is sending one of their guaranteed contracts to a team able to take that contract back without sending any money back in return.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m not going to put everyone to sleep (at least not right away) by boring you with the nuances of trade mechanics under the current CBA. Let\u2019s just skip past all that and get right to dwindling down the list of 29 teams into three groups: those who aren\u2019t in position to take on an extra contract, those that might be in a position to take on an extra contract, and those that almost certainly can take on an extra contract. After all that, I\u2019ll name my most likely landing spot, and what trades I think make the most sense. Here we go\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning! The Knicks finish up their preseason at home tonight at 7:30 against the Raptors. Hopefully they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-933826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933826","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=933826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}