Fred Katz

It's like,

they could find a way to avoid the second apron if they wanted to next year.

And if they didn't and they went into the second apron next year, they have a pretty realistic way of just being in there for one year and then ducking it the next year and getting back down.

Yeah, I mean...

I I'm not sure what to expect on those guys.

To be honest, when I talk to people with the Knicks about it, they are just so giddy about everything that's happened with this group.

They're just like, keep everyone together, keep everything the same.

We're not even thinking about any of that stuff.

We just want this group to be together for the rest of time.

They're all so happy.

And the vibes with this group are so incredible to end the year that they just want everybody.

Yes, totally.

I brought up, they're like, just no, no, leave me alone on this, at least for a little while.

So that's 100% the vibe that I got on it.

I think they would love to bring back as many of those guys as they can.

Mitchell Robinson is the longest tenured Knick.

He's been with this organization for eight years, and I could definitely see a world where he is elsewhere next year because of all those cap concerns that we talked about.

For what it's worth, if they didn't go into the second apron next year, I don't think it, I mean, we talk about them making a lot of money.

If they didn't go into the second apron next year, I don't think it would be because of luxury tax payments.

I think it would be because they thought, their cap department thought it was this strategically wrong move to go into the second apron at this time.