This is RIDICULOUS – Knicks Make BLOCKBUSTER Trade With Raptors | New York Knicks

This is RIDICULOUS – Knicks Make BLOCKBUSTER Trade With Raptors | New York Knicks

What just happened you guys probably already know RJ Barrett and Emanuel quickley just got traded for ogan and Obi and we have to talk about it so what’s up guys welcome back to Nick’s digest my name is Chris and we are going to waste no time we’re jumping right

Into it today because as you’ve probably seen already Shams reported this afternoon that the Knicks are trading RJ Barrett and Emanuel quickly in one second round pick to the Raptors for OG on aobi that does not feel real that does not feel real it’s like that lady

On the play that is not real not going to curse um but if we also look here the Raptors are also sending Malachi Flynn and press to Chua to the Knicks in the trade shout out to Bandit Raptor’s digest because he has constantly made the joke that the Knicks are going to

Trade for Malachi Flynn and there you go Ben it happened Merry Christmas but really this trade it makes sense for the Knicks if you really look at it it totally makes sense for the Raptors who we’ll talk about for like two seconds but essentially the Knicks just got rid

Of RJ Barrett and getting rid of is not exactly the right word RJ’s career with the Knicks has been very up and down though most of us fans have really rode for RJ consistently but here’s the deal when you have a guy like RJ Barrett who

Demands the ball and is a lefty and you also have Julius Randall and Jaylen brunon two lefties who are isolation scorers the team is never going to work those three are not good enough at isolation to all succeed in a great way I mean if you look at the Brooklyn Nets

Harden Kyrie and KD liked to ISO and that didn’t even work out so you think RJ Julius and Brunson are especially when they’re all going left probably not no getting Oobi fills out the team very well you now have the perfect small forward for Bruns and Randall team you

Also get back precious Chua who now is the Nicks backup center they have a real backup center no shade towards Jericho Sims but precious has he’s just he’s got actual NBA experience he’s coming from the Heat and the Raptors who have both been high class organizations who have

Tried to develop him well let’s see what the Knicks can do with him oh my God guys I did not expect this right now I’m a huge RJ Barrett fan so this kind of sucks for me and I’m actually friends with Emanuel quickly him and I play 2K together sometimes so

I’m kind of bummed out right now however it does make sense for the Knicks if you’re looking at this because RJ Barrett makes $30 million per year the Knicks had to pay Emanuel quickly who wanted around that money you’re getting really close to that second apron where

You’re going to start losing draft picks you’re not going to be able to sign anyone other than young players who have basically done nothing in their career the Knicks are saving cap space here I don’t know what OG’s going to get but I don’t think he’s going to get paid as

Much as RJ Barrett is currently getting paid I think he’ll get more than whatever the Raptors give quickly but this gives the Knicks a more real filled out team that is more efficient you get ogan anobi who isn’t but there’s an argument for for him to be the best on

Ball defender in the league I would go McDaniels however you can say that OG is he’s one of the most versatile defenders in a pinch he can play the power forward if Randall is to get hurt he can really play anywhere from the two to the four

He can guard anywhere from the one to the four the man is a defensive monster and he can hit his shots these are OG stats on his career this season he’s averaging 15 points per game he’s also shooting a nice 37.4% from three which is pretty solid

Along with 49% from the field and 33 minutes played get ready those minutes are going to go up cuz Tom Tibido is going to love this guy and he’s also getting two assists he’s getting a steal per game they’re good numbers also four rebounds he’s he’s putting up solid

Numbers um excuse me if I keep looking away my phone is blowing up because my friends know what I do and they want to talk to me about it but um look really the trade makes sense like if you look at this this from a realistic standpoint

I understand why we’d be upset because name value for name value the Knicks just lost however efficiency for efficiency for fit the Knicks and the Raptors both just won the Knicks did not give up a first round pick to get OG on an Obi because they gave up RJ and they

Gave up IQ I don’t know how they gave up both of them I don’t know how that even happened I I’m stunned I’m really I’m really really really really shocked but actually Darielle just texted me this and I am going to go into this um this is going to affect Mitchell in a

Positive way for the New York Knicks this opens up cap space for the Knicks it also opens up guard space for the Knicks the Knicks want Donovan Mitchell who’s a CIA client who else is a CIA client OG anobi who else is a CIA client Jaylen Brunson the Knicks want to pair

All these CA guys together like clutch Sports does as we just talked about and essentially now we’re in a situation where the Knicks basically just opened up cap space Bas and got an elite defender back look it’s a little different though it could feel sort of like the porzingis

Trade OG’s not that old he’s 26 years old he’s got a good seven eight years left of really good basketball and the Knicks clearly aren’t trying to waste that much time and now they’ve basically said all right well as much as we aren’t pushing to win the title this year we

Want this to we want to be contending sooner rather than later they want a team that a superstar can go to and fit right in and guess what putting Oobi in the space for RJ Barrett no shade towards RJ gives you a better chance at

That OG could play off the ball so much better Ben just texted me hahaa you got Mal yeah we get it Ben um Ben’s my guy don’t worry um but I love the precious aoua acquiring because it gives you a backup big who really can play NBA

Minutes has a ton of Bounce isn’t the worst defender in the world and also I mean Malachi Flynn gives you guard depth now that Quickly’s gone I think this means Duce McBride is going to be the Nick’s backup point guard going forward it just would make sense for that to be

The case now I’m so shocked this trade happened though just because the fact that there’s this lawsuit going on the Knicks and the Raptors are in the same division MSU chiri hates the Knicks this is weird this is a very weird time to be a New York Knicks fan I did not expect

This today however here we are and we really just to sort of finish this off this is not going to be a long video believe me we are going to go way more in depth but this is just more reactionary video to a trade that just

Happened the Knicks now are going to be more efficient they just are you have a better defensive player than you’ve ever had before on your team as good as Quinton Grimes is on defense you have a great shooter in the same player you now have a better fit with Brunson and

Randall and now Brunson and Randall are free to just go off and you don’t have to worry about is RJ really going to do anything this game and again there’s no shade towards RJ that’s the way that the Knicks played I actually do think RJ and IQ are both

Going to ball out on the Raptors IQ finally gets to become a starting point guard which he’s deserved for a very long time however unfortunately he’s been behind Jaylen Bronson which is just I don’t want to say bad luck but it’s just like you know it’s Jaylen Bronson

He’s damn near a superstar so you’re not you’re not really going to get that starting job in front of him now IQ gets the start which I’m so happy about he deserves it so much to be a starting point guard in this league he stays with

RJ him and RJ have a good rapport together RJ also now gets to be an isolation player the Raptors are probably going to trade Pascal cakam so we’re going to watch RJ ball out and people are going to say oh the Knicks made a mistake trading RJ Barrett where

In reality whatever was going to happen with Randall and Brunson on this team RJ was never going to break out and the same thing with quickly these were guys being suppressed by the Knicks because the talent that the Knicks had the Knicks just cashed that talent in or the

The suppressed talent in for a guy who fits perfectly who will totally resign with the Knicks who they will have for the foreseeable future going forwards it makes sense it’s a good move for the Knicks all in all a lot of people are probably going to disagree but when you

Look at this fitwise OG fits a lot better than RJ Barrett so I think that’s a huge part for me the biggest loss is losing quickly and swapping out for Malachi Flynn who you know just is not a manual quickly this does mean some dece McBride season though so that’s fun and

That’s really all we got for right now guys uh just a quick ending of of this video in OG’s playoff appearances the man has played pretty well obviously the three-point percentage last time around wasn’t great but we did see him score 17 points per game in the playoffs before

OG’s a great player he’s a great fit on the Knicks he’s a CIA guy it works out for the Knicks it makes total sense lon’s keeping it all in the family as per usual and really we’re going to have to see how this works out next time

You’ll see me I’ll be talking to Ben on Raptor dig just on next dig just not too sure yet but thank you guys so much for watching oh my God have a great day go Nick

WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED!!! The New York Knicks and RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley and a second round pick for OG Anunoby, Precious Achiuwa, and Malachai Flynn. On the surface, many fans will hate this, but Chris Gallagher breaks all of it down.

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