{"id":283718,"date":"2026-07-01T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/283718\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:22:08","slug":"nba-free-agency-mitchell-robinson-wont-return-to-new-york-knicks-signs-with-boston-celtics-sources-tell-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/283718\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA free agency: Mitchell Robinson won&#8217;t return to New York Knicks, signs with Boston Celtics, sources tell ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Free-agent center <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4351852\/mitchell-robinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mitchell Robinson<\/a>, fresh off winning an NBA title with the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ny\/new-york-knicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Knicks<\/a>, has agreed to a three-year, $47.4 million deal to sign with the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-celtics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Boston Celtics<\/a>, with a player option in the third season, sources tell ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Robinson was the longest-tenured Knick and one of only two rotation players originally drafted by New York (<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4431823\/miles-mcbride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miles McBride<\/a> being the other) who were heavy contributors in their championship run. In his eight seasons with the Knicks, Robinson averaged 7.5 points and 8.0 rebounds in just under 24 minutes a game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">This past season, Robinson&#8217;s 60 games were the most he&#8217;s played since the 2022-23 season as he battled injuries throughout his career. He was instrumental for the Knicks as they won their first championship in 53 years, averaging 4.2 offensive rebounds per game &#8212; second in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In the playoffs, Robinson averaged 4.8 points and 5.5 rebounds in 13.9 minutes, making his way back from a broken right pinky finger he suffered between the Eastern Conference finals and NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">ESPN&#8217;s Vincent Goodwill contributed to this story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free-agent center Mitchell Robinson, fresh off winning an NBA title with the New York Knicks, has agreed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[108829,9127,3080,21,9,11,1104,10,12,66519],"class_list":["post-283718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-108829","tag-boston-celtics","tag-espn","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-robinson-mitchell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}