The conundrum is easy enough to understand, even amid the complexities and frustrating math of the stupid luxury tax aprons.<\/p>\n
The Knicks, bottom line, are hard-capped at about $207.8 million. The NBA and players union don\u2019t want you to use \u201chard cap\u201d since they\u2019re trying to pretend it doesn\u2019t exist in their CBA, but that\u2019s the reality of the Knicks\u2019 situation. They can\u2019t spend a dollar over $207.8 million on salaries, at least not without a tree-planting scam<\/a> and a shady uncle to circumvent the cap.<\/p>\n After spreading money to their 12 current guaranteed contracts, the Knicks are left with two roster spots to fill and the space to sign just one veteran minimum.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the conundrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The conundrum is easy enough to understand, even amid the complexities and frustrating math of the stupid luxury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[15517,25171,25154,62394,355,361,46712,4892,99,358],"class_list":["post-165233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-inside-the-knicks","tag-landry-shamet","tag-malcolm-brogdon","tag-miles-mcbride","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-pacome-dadiet","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}